Good and bad - this is the story of my life.

Disco music in the '70s was just a call to go wild and party and dance with no thought or conscience or regard for tomorrow.

Going on with life, it only gets more and more intense as time goes by - and the challenges only multiply.

I was stranded in Disco. I went to dozens of darkened places with enough flashing lights to drive the average person mad. I felt lost in the pulse of sheer panic.

I don't worry about being in a hurry anymore, because my faith in God will always deliver me on time.

You can't very well live in a castle while your kin is on the poor side of town and barely have enough food. Some want you to get to the top and rely on you making it for them, too.

The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.

If you stick around long enough, people start referring to you as a survivor. Suddenly I found myself on the receiving end of several prestigious awards.

I worshipped Berry Gordy for the creative dreams he had made come true.

The world I was born into was one filled with music.

Detroit is full of talent.

There is simply nothing of comparable value to life.

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

I used to take my car and go down to the South Island for five or six days and climb glaciers and jump out of planes and jump off bridges and go white water rafting - a bit of thrill-seeking.

Please keep in mind the distinction between healing and treatment: treatment originates from outside, whereas healing comes from within.

A popular saying in Alderson went as follows: 'They work us like a horse, feed us like a bird, treat us like a child, dress us like a man - and then expect us to act like a lady.

When in company, put not your hands to any part of the body, not usually discovered.

Jewelry is the most transformative thing you can wear.

It is better to will the good than to know the truth.

Adoption gives us the privilege of sons, regeneration the nature of sons.

The goal of prayer is not just the sharing of our ideas, but also of ourselves.