The Lord has called me to obedience, though not always to success.

Health, wealth, happiness, live long and always prosper, have families and also friends, let them be lasting in me forever.

What does literature do better than anything else? It provides a detailed representation of the inner experience of being alive in a given time and place.

Drawing her closer he tucked his chin and lifted hers to meet his abysmal onyx eyes.

The secret to making yourself stronger is to absorb the strength of the people around you—energy begets energy.

Everything I've done has been personally fun, important, and meaningful to me.

Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.

I will not fall in love with you," she said. "I can't let myself. I won't." "That's all right. I'll love you enough for the both of us.

What if we were to take seriously the possibility that our students have a rich and authoritative inner life and tried to nourish it rather than negate it?

Innovation distinguishes a leader from a follower.

She grew up hard and she grew up fast, in the age of television.