I'm not much of a song-and-dance man.

Every generation will be challenged morally once in their life about its government, and they will have to say where they stand.

In another couple of generations, we're really gonna see the effect of this single-parent raising. And I think that's the problem. That's the disconnect. That's the miscommunication.

I never felt comfortable in real life very well. It's always been an awkward kind of thing for me.

The only people who ever called me a rebel were people who wanted me to do what they wanted.

We're really all alone. We can't ever get inside another person's spirit, and see the world they do. So we are alone in that sense. The only way we have to communicate feelings is through words.

It's failure, really, that you grow by, although nobody likes to experience it.

Everything has a purpose, even this, and it's up to you to find it.

A warrior is not about perfection or victory or invulnerability. He's about absolute vulnerability.

We truly have an ancient part of the brain that was about survival when we were prey but we seem to have gone past prey. We eat everything and nothing eats us.

Death isn't sad. The sad thing is: most people don't live at all.

La verdad, es que en el fondo soy un fatalista. Si a uno le llega la hora, da lo mismo un Boeing que la puntual maceta que se derrumba sobre uno desde un séptimo piso

When you cried, I learned what helplessness tastes like. Because all I could do was swallow.

Events in life mean nothing if you do not reflect on them in a deep way, and ideas from books are pointless if they have no application to life as you live it.

The Afro-American experience is the only real culture that America has. Basically, every American tries to walk, talk, dress and behave like African Americans.

LORD strengthen me where I am too weak and weaken me where I am too strong!

Holiness is doing God's will with a smile.

He was either a man of about a hundred and fifty who was rather young for his years, or a man of about a hundred and ten who had been aged by trouble.

These are just the rules and regulations Of the birds, and the bees The earth, and the trees, Not to mention the gods, not to mention the gods.

I like to end stories where the readers have a little room to run. They can resolve things as they like in their own mind.

I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing.