More often than what you're suggesting, I find people are surprised that I have an urban side to me.

It doesn't matter what you've done in the past - what matters are the choices you make right now. God gives you the chance to start over with every breath.

You have so much power to bring awareness, prevention and change.

I get lonely when I'm a Playstation widow.

Your private relationship with yourself is a spring that will feed every other factor.

It is better to begin in the evening than not at all.

The empowerment of girls and women is an essential tool to preventing the HIV/AIDS emergency from exploding any further

A wonderful pastor I know once told me, "Perfectionism is the highest order of self-abuse." So now I try to remind myself that if I engage in perfectionism, I am abusing myself. Period.

It's up to us to take pop culture back and to express quality and dignity for both boys and girls.

It's unconscionable to breed with the number of children who are starving to death in impoverished countries.

My mothers into frilly dresses and eyelashes and hairstyles from the 1970s. We always argue about that.

Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way.

Industrial civilization is only possible when there's no self-denial. Self-indulgence up to the very limits imposed by hygiene and economics. Otherwise the wheels stop turning.

You know a little drink now and then never hurt nobody, but when you can't git started without asking the bottle, you in trouble.

Visionaries not only believe that the impossible can be done, but that it must be done.

Provided the development coordinator has a communications medium at least as good as the Internet and knows how to lead without coercion, many heads are inevitably better than one.

There is now a desperate need for a London-wide left caucus of those interested in the GLC and local councils so that we can compare and discuss what is happening in each borough.

I've been doing interviews for years, and in all that time, I've virtually never read one and gone, 'Yep, factually and tonally that's exactly what happened.' Pretty much never.

Your heart is not the compass that God steers by.

I would like to have my consciousness digitally preserved and housed in a pleasant place for later insertion into a fully functional cyborg when that's possible.

What I do with my kids is I tell them I love them every day, but also I tell them the truth.