I want you to live, and go on living, and let everyone else live, too.

And maybe a few days of freedom would be better than a lifetime spent as a slave.

Even though she was powerful enough to kill, she could also grow flowers.

And when we have power- when you have power, Jae, you'll need to decide what to do with it. What kind of person you want to be. If you want to be like them.

...his respect, hard enough to earn in the first place, was all but impossible to win back after it was lost.

You said it was a sacrifice. Coming from me, it's a gift.

Spiritual maturity is not measured by the years that you have spent in church, rather by your attitude before people different from you.

If you want the rainbow, then you must have the rain.

One of the album's songs features Mary J. Blige, but I don't want to talk too much about it yet. I think you will hear the music that's been playing in my head when it comes out

A man, so to speak, who is not able to bow to his own conscience every morning is hardly in a condition to respectfully salute the world at any other time of the day.

You have no cause for anything but gratitude and joy.

It is well to open one's mind but only as a preliminary to closing it ... for the supreme act of judgment and selection.

The American dream itself is declining.

The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.

More and more, I see myself as a folk musician, and someone who values context.

The product of a true, growing, gospel-centered nature is often gentleness.