I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago, because a mind was made fo figure things out, not to read the same page recurrently.

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.

I have sometimes wondered if the greatest desire of man is to be known and loved anyway.

And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it.

What I believe is not what I say I believe; what I believe is what I do.

You can't tell a good story without conflict - the story can't be beautiful or meaningful. We're taught to run from conflict, and it's robbing us of some really good stories.

If we knew how much God loved us and was for us, we’d talk to Him all day long.

How disappointing would it be get to heaven and find out God created life to be enjoyed while all we did was worry?

There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing.

I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me

People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen.

Where there is life, there is hope.

A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock.

No one has ever held me so tightly. It's a shock to matter this much. It isn't like arms are around me, it's more like a house, as if he has made a house around me. As he did around Tommy.

For me, all the materials and objects I employ come from a specific space that's very personal.

He had been so busy getting away from the library, he hadn't paid attention to where he was going.

The future is about a plant-based diet.

If whites would vote their economic interests, not their racial fears, we the people who have the most need for change have the power to bring about that change nonviolently.

In black America there's such a thing as passing, the black people who are light skinned and they will pass for white.

I really like my eyes, nose, and lips. I especially like my nose. I really like my lips too. I think my lips are sexy.

It was a different sexual situation going on than it is in the '80s and '90s, and I did a very poor job of describing that.