He had a nice smile. Seeing it, I felt like I’d won a prize, because he was so sparing with them.

The future was one thing that could never be broken, because it had not yet had the chance to be anything.

You only really fall apart in front of the people you know can piece you back together.

We were there, together, and in the next room I could hear that monitor beeping. Keeping track of another heart’s beat and giving enduring, solid proof of our own.

You always think you want to be noticed. Until you are.

What you do in your dreams is never your choice. But it made me happy anyway.

That's the thing, though. You always think you want to be noticed. Until you are

Death comes to us all

Your organization will take on the personality of its top leaders

The end we ought to propose to ourselves is to become, in this life, the most perfect worshipers of God we can possibly be, as we hope to be through all eternity.

A man of active and resilient mind outwears his friendships just as certainly as he outwears his love affairs, his politics and his epistemology.

Shapeshifter parenting motto—if your kid slit somebody's throat, always have a backup plan to make the body disappear.

Like any group that has endured much, African Americans have created a strong and mutually reinforcing sense of group identity. That's not a bad thing in and of itself.

You might want to put this in the back of your craw and think about it.

I never pay attention, to no numbers, no views, comments ... I just try to keep on going, keep on living my life so I can continue to put out music that's real.

It is not the things we do in life that we regret on our death bed. It is the things we do not.

Tell him to live by yes and no - yes to everything good, no to everything bad.