Stale godliness is ungodliness. Let our religion be as warm, and constant, and natural as the flow of the blood in our veins. A living God must be served in a living way.

We can change the course of events if we go to our knees in believing prayer.

If you truly want to help the poor, first become rich yourself.

The Phoenix rises in the absence or need of witness.

Your lover should be your best friend.... Love can be a choice as much as an accident.

Yet people in general will say they like colored men as well as any other, but in their proper place.

When you look at life think in terms of karate. But remember that karate is not only karate -- it is life.

One of the things I would love to do, by the time I die, is be in every single genre. That would be really fun. I get to shoot guns and jump out of a helicopter.

I could never be lonely without a husband, but without my trinkets, my golden gods, I could find abysmal gloom.

The challenge is about taking things that are infinitely complex and making them simpler and more understandable.

I will say I am the sum of my books.