I was so mad you could have boiled a pot of water on my head.

Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia Our time is forever now.

Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave - and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way.

Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action, our problems are most complex and, too often, silently borne.

writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind.

We think of poverty as a condition simply meaning a lack of funds, no money, but when one sees fifth, sixth, and seventh generation poor, it is clear that poverty is as complicated as high finance.

The Black writer explains pain to those who inflict it.

Some feminists feel that a woman should never be wrong. We have a right to be wrong.

Truth is simply whatever you can bring yourself to believe.

I think women need kindness more than love. When one human being is kind to another, it's a very deep matter.

Some truth has no nourishment in it.

...the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.

Godshawk looked surprised, the way that people generally do when you ask them philosophical questions in shrubberies in the middle of the night.

I feel like shouting, hallelujah, all the time, when I think that I ever I knew Joseph Smith, the Prophet.

If you watch a Chinese movie with subtitles, it's just like watching an Arabic movie with Chinese subtitles. That explains why you can't take Chinese language movies and expect them to go abroad.

All we can do is evaluate what we see in practice.

Money confers the power to command the labor of others. Love of money is love of power. And love of power is the root of evil.

Then we see that the same God is within ourselves.

Love is full of imagination.

We all have friends we love dearly that couldn't pass for human in a strict Turing test.

If you look at my career, I've never gone to a team that had fulfilled their potential.