If you and I have not seen God, we cannot bear witness to God.

Patience is passion tamed.

Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.

I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them.

In New York - whose subway trains in particular have been "tattooed" with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame - not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements.

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice - but as yet unstained.

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

The artist does not really create; he discovers.

It is a shame for a man to be a millionaire in possessions if he is not also a millionaire in beneficence.

We often pray for purity, unselfishness, for the highest qualities of character, and forget that these things cannot be given, but must be earned.

The highest qualities of character...must be earned.

Love is the magic, mystery, and the beauty of life.

If you do not have the courage to be yourself, what will you be?

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

Good morals lead to good laws.

Take a chance on faith - not religion, but faith. Not hope, but faith. I don’t believe in hope. Hope is a beggar. Hope walks through the fire. Faith leaps over it.

A hero is a goddam stupid thing to have in the first place and a general block to anything you might wanta accomplish on your own.

You know I'm bad, I'm bad. You know it.

I grew up listening to Commission, Kirk Franklin and Hezekiah Walker. If I was found listening to any rap, my pops would throw them out, or crush the CDs and tapes - literally.

Love as a power can go anywhere. It isn't sentimental. It doesn't have to be pretty, yet it doesn't deny pain.

We should try our best to pour out all the burdens in our spirit by prayer until all of them have left us.