Real choices – the ones that changed you and shaped you – were never made with the head, but on the beat of a heart that saw a future it couldn't live without.

The question is never 'who am I?' It's 'who do I want to be?

Grief came in waves, sometimes big, sometimes small, but even on the calmest days, the grief remained. The tide still came ashore.

She looked at him for an age, and he read nothing short of love on her face. It warmed him to the core he'd thought dead, and scared the crap out of him.

Only with the closing of the eyes are we truly free.

I see as white people finding loopholes in the slavery laws.

Every day of my life I walk with the idea I am black no matter how successful I am.

There is no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well and naturally.

The image my work invokes is the image of good - not evil; the image of order - not chaos; the image of life - not death. And that is all the content of my constructions amounts to.

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

It's been proven that fitting more activity into your day can greatly improve your health.

That each day that you love, honor, and respect your own unique point of view, you're a step closer to finding a fortune.

We need a dedicated minority who, like the apostles of old, are willing to be called the scum of the earth and a spectacle to the world for the scandal of the cross.

I am thy father's spirit; Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night And, for the day, confin'd to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes, done in my days of nature, Are burnt and purg'd away.