I don't throw lavish parties or nothing like that - I just want a bed and a TV.

And when you smile, the whole world stops and stares for a while

When everything in life gets so complicated it only takes a day to change it

If you ever forget how much you really mean to me, Every day I will remind you

Be in control. Know who you are. And don't try to be different just to be different.

You can't knock on opportunity's door and not be ready.

Never had much faith in love or miracles, Never wanna put my heart on the line

You have to be who you are, and hopefully they dig it

You gotta know what you are, who you are and how you want to be portrayed.

When I see your face, there's not a thing that I would change 'cause you're are amazing just the way you are.

You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.

In sum, then, "thinking about thinking" has to be a principal ingredient of any empowering practice of education.

From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections.

All of the signs we invented growing up and we never invented one for 'he's standing right behind you'?

We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.

The Republican Party: a few million gun-toting, Armageddon-ready Baptists.

I've always loved writing.

Excellence requires us to prepare in advance.

You can laugh or you can cry. It is up to you which one you do.

I think it takes people to get to know you and the recognition comes over time.

One of the first, and most important of those duties which are incumbent upon us, is fervent and united prayer.