I always thought falling in love was hard, but now I realize that was the easy bit. It’s staying in love that‘s the hard part.

Is that how you’re supposed to find your soulmate and fall in love these days? By flirting in 140 character tweets and stalking each other’s social media pages?

A moment of kindness can bring infinite beauty in life.

No matter what, we always have the power to choose hope over despair, engagement over apathy, kindness over indifference, love over hate.

The most important part of us is the part that no one ever sees.

I think there are a lot of writers that can get away with not being gifted with words.

For the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.

Everything is the will of God - we are only instruments of her will and we learn to just love and accept.

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

There is, in fact, no teaching without learning.

How blessed I am that I can walk beside you, lean upon you, and live within the warmth of your love...

My fighting gospel is T.E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom. I am never without it.