I love the way you lit candles, with the insistence that I never look, just so I can open my eyes and find the light in the darkness.

When words failed I realized there was something unspeakably beautiful in not being able to put words to your happiness.

He asked me once what I wanted when I died, what I wanted out of life, and I told him I just wanted more happy memories than sad ones.

Sleeping with books is a vicious affair, I do not believe it will ever stop.

Love no longer becomes a feeling - it becomes a storm.

I found there are many things women ask for in a love. Other women demand money, power, or adventure. All I pray for is that he is patient, and plead that he will love me.

Your beauty will be in shades of melanin and light.

I'm starting to learn that if things are messy, or pieces don't get put back right, they are going to hurt, either way.

I will never ask of you the impossible, I just ask you to love me in the best way you can.

It is funny how when you have been hurt in love and you fall in love again, every reason you have for loving that person is both enough and not, all at once.

But, darling, I need you to know, you loving me will not heal me. Please realize, I already know that. And I do not expect it to.

If we seek the knowledge God, all other knowledge will be given to us.

You don't need a major label and they sure don't need you.

I don't think lyrics need to be deep - just write whatever comes out of you. You don't need to find intense meaning in everything.

In war everything is simple, but it's the simple things that are difficult.

The freest child is the child who is most interested in what he is doing, and at whose hand are the materials for his work or play.

I went in and said, "If I see one more gratuitous shot of a woman's body, I'm quitting . . . " I think the show should be emotional story lines, morals, real- life heroes. And that's what we're doing

No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid; but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid.

Our works do not generate righteousness, rather our righteousness in Christ generates works.

Hey man! Get away from me!

Your spirit is mingled with mine what touches you, touches me.