People do not plan to mess up their lives. They just don't plan not to.

Giving up something now for something better later is not a sacrifice. It is an investment.

It's better to make a difference than to make a point.

There is no cramming for a test of character. It always comes as a pop quiz.

You have no idea the numbers of people that God may want to influence through you

Leaders who refuse to listen, will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing helpful to say

Your devotion to God is illustrated, demonstrated, and authenticated by your love for others.

At the end of the day, God's love for me, for you, and for the world is settled at the cross.

It takes a habit to break a habit. You can pray every day for a generous heart, but until you start acting in that direction, nothing's going to change.

Your greatest accomplishment may not be something you do but someone you raise.

Your friends will determine the quality and direction of your life.

The best thing that I can teach you is to be compassionate and kind to all.

My skin is so thin that the innocent words of others burn holes right through me.

Straight is the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life and few there be that find it.

They're keeping friction going between people from the East and the West. One thing we all got in common is your color, which is Black and Latino, which is our family.

...in other words, all I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama Interview - March 1964

Fools with bookish knowledge art children with edged weapons; they hurt themselves, and put others in pain.

I don't sing anything that hurts my voice.

Dattebayo! (Do you get what I am saying?!)

Always invest for the long term.

Eloquence invites us to bring some part of ourselves to the transaction.