Love is a perpetual journey that is extraordinary because it will never find itself terminated by a destination.

We ask, ‘Why the need for God?’ Maybe the better question is ‘Why the need not to need Him?’ And could it be that that question in fact evidences our need for Him?

You are not made in ‘your image’. You are, in fact, made in ‘God’s image’. Therefore, which one are you looking for when you look in the mirror?

If I’ve prayed, I never have to worry about being the first one to show up.

In the end, if we don't have God we don't have anything other than an end.

The darkness that follows a sunset is never so dark that it can change the inevitability of a sunrise.

Faith is rare because fear is rampant. For faith will demand that I step into places that fear itself fears to go.

Forgiveness allows the burdens that we carry to become the histories that we forget.

When we choose to stay down, we are in reality confusing wisdom with cowardice. When we choose to stand back up, we are using wisdom to overcome cowardice.

I can arrogantly brag that the doors I choose in life open wide and grant me unobstructed passage. But the widest doors tend to lead to the worst places.

A compass calibrated by my greed is a rather shrewd way to legitimize my agenda. However, true north on a compass such as this is a straight line to the edge of a really big cliff.

I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.

Your approach and response to issues will determine how people will relate and deal with you per time.

Exploitation to finance a beach house in Hawaii was one thing. Doing it to feed your kids was another.

Poets write beautiful words to describe savagery-wrapped civilization nowadays.

I want so badly to believe that there is truth, that love is real. And I want life in every word to the extent that it's absurd.

Acting forces you to ask yourself, 'Can my constitution take a decade of constant rejection?' And after ten years, you either make it or you don't. And the problem is they don't tell you in advance.

Children are much less annoying [than adults] and they never start trends.

I did not believe what I was told about being poor and black and female in Mississippi in 1954.

Love is the motive, but justice is the instrument.

A father, finding time for what is most important is the true marker of a successful person.