She hug me around my neck, say, "You're righter than Miss Taylor." I tear up then. My cup is spilling over. Those is new words to me.

Wasn't that the point of the book? For women to realize, We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought.

Write about what disturbs you, particularly if it bothers no one else.

Ever morning, until you dead in the ground, you gone have to make this decision. You gone have to ask yourself, "Am I gone believe what them fools say about me today?

I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they must be good.

....I realized I actually had a choice in what I could believe.

You is kind. You is smart. You is important.

Great books give you a feeling that you miss all day, until you finally get to crawl back inside those pages again.

...and that's when I get to wondering, what would happen if I told her she something good, ever day?

I was surprise to see the world didn't stop just cause my boy did.

Who knew paper and ink could be so vicious

How can I not believe that there is a God who exists and loves, when the people before me are infused with that love and pour it out daily?

A flower doesn't love you or hate you, it just exists.

Act as though it is impossible to fail.

Most men expose themselves in battle enough to save their honor, few wish to do so more than sufficiently, or than is necessary to make the design for which they expose themselves succeed.

Do not cruise through red lights. Because if I'm coming the other way, I will run you down, for fun.

When to give grace? I'd rather stand before God knowing I loved others too much rather than regretting that I judged too harshly.

I never met a man who thought his thinking was faulty.

The subject of my work has a lot to do with general, artistic matters, questions like: What is creativity? Where do we come from? What are our motors? What is coincidence? What is logic?

I didn't cut no corners, I just gave it my heart and soul.

Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity.