I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.

There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream.

If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.

I minded my own business, and, unfortunately, so did everyone else.

I miss the comfort in being sad.

The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.

I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didn't believe them.

I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.

Have you ever had a broken heart?

If you get old fashioned enough, you'll always be in style.

I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness.

If you emulate the behaviours of confident people, you will help yourself to become confident.

Change can only work in two ways – for the better, or for the worst. Yet, regardless of whatever manner in which change comes into our lives, what matters is how we view it and how we react to it.

All the seeming "coincidences" .... were actually God catching me in his arms.

Let me give you one piece of advice. Do not get between a woman and her cause.

James Lipton: The most pompous arrogant failure in history.

I was guided by Allah (God) to give a yardstick to the voting public, particularly Black people as to what will set that candidate apart from others.

We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.

Plato's concern is not just an intellectual issue, but it is knitted with emotional life as well.

The 1970s must be the years when America pays its debt to the past by reclaiming the purity of its air, its waters, and our living environment. It is literally now or never.

It takes leaders to grow other leaders.