It is the very use of coercion, positive or negative, that breaks or deadens the spirit, which is the source of motivation.

When you use your energy and resources to punish people, you run out of energy and resources to protect people.

If your creation is taking 99% perspiration, it stinks and you need more inspiration.

Roy Dale suspected that Mississippi was beautiful. He wasn't sure. He didn't have anything to compare it to. He hadn't even ever been out of the Delta.

When we would say 'No way, ' he would say, 'My way.' Then the ones who doubted would scramble to salvage the blessing. And the one who gave it would savor the surprise.

If you can’t forgive and move on, then your feelings will grow and fester and they will eat you alive.

I think I may be in love with you, Sophie," said Will. "Marriage could be in the cards.

Let’s be gentle with ourselves and each other and fierce as we fight oppression.

I'm kind of still down with Virg Woolf on this one: "women must kill the aesthetic ideal through which they themselves have been 'killed' into art."

I don't want to be skinny. I'm constantly in a state of self-improvement but I don't beat myself up over it.

Have you heard his new song? 'Cause he thinks he's a black man now.

The desert sky is encircling, majestic, terrible.

It is best to know the worst at once.