If you have unity without variety, you have uniformity and that's boring. If you have variety without unity, you have anarchy.

While a little faith may bring your souls to heaven, a lot of faith--clinging to God despite your circumstances--will bring heaven to your soul

You are a sinner married to a sinner...and the happiest marriage is the union of two forgivers.

Compassion is not a sometime action

A first edition of Peter Pan appeared gift-wrapped on my bed - Lucy admitted that Asher had drafted her to help deliver that present.

I'm ain't crazy to be normal

I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century.

Black men who have succeeded have an obligation to serve as role models for young men entrapped by a vicious cycle of poverty, despair, and hopelessness.

Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.

I’m just a real loner kind of person, and yeah, kinda dark. But I’m happy. Not sad. I’m just shy and nervous.

We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains.

Courage, determination, and hard work are all very nice, but not so nice as an oil well in the back yard.

Where I fit in is confusing to me.