I'm just the messenger here. I'm just another representative of my faith, so to speak.

I almost died, secretly, behind closed doors.

I learned in an extremely hard way that the accountability falls with me.

Evolution isn't true, because if we evolved from monkeys, how can they still be here?

Loving Jesus is what's most important to me. I know it sounds hokey, but it's the truth.

I think it's really terrifying that a country based on the foundations and ideals of God, is now systematically removing God from everything. Everything!

I don't think Warren Buffett should be the treasurer or whatever. Warren Buffett's nuts! Just because he's a freaking billionaire doesn't mean he has common sense.

Not a lot of individuals get to refer to the Lord in their prayers as 'Dude', but he's doing a new thing with me.

If Barack Obama is elected, I'll be moving out of the country.

My life is God's life in me for Him to do with what He wants.

I've been to MTV and all of that worldly stuff. It's death. It's meaningless.

Others have seen and experienced the good, the bad, and the ugly, and their experiences serve as models you can learn from.

Random lines, Beyond the Darkness: "Playing 'tag, you're it' against a car is a bad idea.

It's hard to see how the Copyright Office can rise to the many challenges of the 21st-century work that you do without dramatically more independence and dramatically more flexibility.

Sorrow, like rain makes roses and mud.

If we share our shame story with the wrong person, they can easily become one more piece of flying debris in an already dangerous storm.(page 10)

Meditation is essential because meditation opens the mind to itself.

Voluntary association produces the free market - where each person can choose among a multitude of possibilities.

Fame lulls the fever of the soul, and makes Us feel that we have grasp'd an immortality.

It didn't make me glow. I felt more like I was fading away, like the world had forgotten me.

When I see the leadership roles black women are taking today I am very encouraged.