Love is like playing checkers. You have to know which man to move.

Advice to children crossing the street: damn the lights. Watch the cars. The lights ain't never killed nobody.

Ain't nothin' an ol' man can do but bring me a message from a young one.

Black women, white women- all of them. I'm colorblind. I don't know the difference. I only know you're a human being and you're my children.

Anytime you see me with my arms around an old man, I'm holding him for the police.

My husband was so ugly, he used to stand outside the doctor’s office and make people sick.

It's no disgrace to be old. But damn if it isn't inconvenient.

The teenagers aren't all bad. I love 'em if nobody else does. There ain't nothing wrong with young people. Jus' quit lyin' to 'em.

A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man's man only as long as he can

I don't want nothing old but some old money. Buy me some young ideas. That's what I'm gonna do with it.

Use those brains that God put in your head.

A good man is as strong as the right woman needs him to be.

If you search for God you will find him and He will not give up on you".

Rise in great might to fulfill your special specific mission.

I am finding deep joy in depending on Christ for the guidance only He can provide as He produces the fruit of gospel in my life.

The great day of the Fire-eater - or, should I say, the day of the great Fire-eater - has passed.

There was a lovely bit of play which set Valley Parade alight again

1st Valentine's Day: 200,000 BC men and women congregate on opposite sides of Pangaea, waiting for someone to make the first move.

The beauty of my work is that my sets cost nothing. That's what I love about being a writer of novels.

Yet still we hug the dear deceit.

Not everything has a happy ending, and not everything has an ending. Some things just kind of dribble away or cut off abruptly.