My prayer is that God would continue to love me enough to refuse to answer the prayers I'm praying that I shouldn't be praying.

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 love my loneliness as you do love your virginity.

HEAVEN: The big apartheid in the sky.

I never thought about the green, but LA has a lot of greenery.

Want me to Stevie Wonder my way to the bathroom?

The true slogan of a true democracy is not 'Let the Government do it' but rather, 'let's do it ourselves'.... This is the spirit of a people dedicated to helping themselves and one another.

Suffiseth this to proove my theame withall,That every bullet hath a lighting place.

Dogmas are the toys that amuse and can satisfy but unreasoning children. They are the offspring of human speculation and prejudiced fancy.

I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is.

Helping Africans navigate the transition to modernity with a huge, wonderful wildlife resource still intact.