That was my mom. Don't fight the system. Mock the system.

Relationships are built in the silences.

Learn from your past and be better because of your past, but don't cry about your past. Life is full of pain. Let the pain sharpen you, but don't hold on to it. Don't be bitter.

We tell people to follow their dreams, but you can only dream of what you can imagine, and, depending on where you come from, your imagination can be quite limited.

It didn't matter that there was a war on our doorstep. She had things to do, places to be.

But regret is the thing we should fear most. Failure is an answer. Rejection is an answer. Regret is an eternal question you will never have the answer to.

The tricky thing about the hood is that you’re always working, working, working, and you feel like something’s happening, but really nothing’s happening at all.

The world has been taught to be scared of him, but the reality is that he is scared of the world because he has none of the tools necessary to cope with it.

You want to live in a world where someone is good or bad. Where you either hate them or love them. But that's not how people are.

In society, we do horrible things to one another because we don’t see the person it affects. We don’t see their face. We don’t see them as people.

In any society built on institutionalized racism, race-mixing doesn't merely challenge the system as unjust, it reveals the system as unsustainable and incoherent.

Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved.

See more than your eyes can see.Hear more than your ears can hear.Do more than your hands can do.Go further than your feet can go.

It's possible for me to make a bad movie out of a good script, but I can't make a good movie from a bad script.

There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is praised as equal to the gods.

My job [as a teacher] is to love the Scriptures in public. And then sit down.

Bologna is celebrated for producing popes, painters, and sausage.

I write autobiographically, although I apply liberal amounts of poetic license.

Depending upon one another's hearts, ye had still hoped that virtue were not all a dream. Now are ye undeceived. Evil is the nature of mankind.

It is not so easy to keep silent when the silence is a lie.

I'll ride my bike all the stinkin' way to school for the rest of eternity if it means being with her. -Bryce