Mother Florence had once told her that jealousy was the worst of all faults because it prevented a person from being who they were born to be.

When you do something because you're angry, you almost always do the wrong thing.

Growing up is the greatest adventure of all.

Profound subject matter can be encompassed in small space - for proof, look at any sonnet by Shakespeare!

There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.

When you start doing what you love to do, you will never work another day in your life.

I like Bach. I like Randy Newman.

Compassion is a living, breathing, organic emotion that vibrates through you and links you to those around you.

At birth the Devil touched my tongue.

Once torched by truth...a little thing like faith is easy.

Cowardice is incompatible with divine wisdom.

A foreigner coming here and reading the Congressional Record would say that the President of the United States was elected solely for the purpose of giving Senators somebody to call a horse thief.