Over and over again mediocrity is promoted because real worth isn't to be found.

Friendship is an art, and very few persons are born with a natural gift for it.

Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine.

I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are taught takes the life out of them.

Not money, or success, or position or travel or love makes happiness,--service is the secret.

In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.

But hope has an astonishing resilience and strength. Its very persistence in our hearts indicates that it is not a tonic for wishful thinkers but the ground on which realists stand.

Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.

Peace - that was the other name for home.

Only Christ could have brought us all together, in this place, doing such absurd but necessary things.

So I would choose to be with you, That's if the choice were mine to make, But you can make decisions too, And you can have this heart to break

Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.

You can't express your true feelings until you know what they are

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

Eight generations of African-Americans are still waiting to achieve their rights - compensation and restitution for the hundreds of years during which they were bought and sold on the market.

I met Bill Clinton in 1977 while I was working as a news reporter for KARK-TV in Little Rock, Arkansas. Shortly after we met, we began a sexual relationship that lasted for twelve years.

I guess for me the greatest injustice is to see people robbed of that interiority and process of association.

Words, particularly in a play, should have the texture of a crisp, autumn apple.

Sometimes in the fashion industry we come across some unfair rules, but no one is obliged to follow them.

Recovery culture teaches you that you have to repent. I don't think that's necessary.