Most passport pictures are good likenesses, and it is time we faced it.

One woman's poise is another woman's poison.

But sometimes the very things you fall in love with people for, become the things you like least about them, in the end.

Little children never know that they feel seasick, till they are.

New Yorkers are nice about giving you street directions; in fact, they seem quite proud of knowing where they are themselves.

Daily mediate the Holy Scriptures.

Eagerly desire to know thy Creator.

...and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires

A child's a plaything for an hour.

Whatever is on your plate got there because you said yes to it.

I once looked like Norman Mailer in a picture with bad lighting.

We are the in midst of a bipartisan moment as it relates to criminal justice reform and dealing with mass incarceration in America which disproportionately impacts the African-American community.

Just because others have it worse doesn’t mean you have to suffer in silence.

We are made whole by books, as by great space and the stars.

We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.