The circumstances of one's birth is irrelevant, it is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are.

I see now that the circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant. It is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are.

If I hadn't lost my hearing, I wouldn't be where I am now. It forced me to maximize my own potential. I have to be better than the average person to succeed.

I fear the many faces, many personalities in me. Sometimes I fail to understand my self and become deceived by my various selves.

Beauty is always found in the profound and deepest actions of a person who does things from the heart not from the shallowness of materialism.

Live to learn . . . forget . . . and learn again.

It is easier for me to have faith in the Bible than to have faith in D.L. Moody, for Moody has failed me lots of times.

That's the strange thing about being a mother: until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one

I played T-Mac. I cooked him. Roasted him. Wasn't even close.

My father didn't know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his name from his grandfather and he got it from the slave master.

I think there's a God and I know it's not me.

If you don't have a moral question governing your society, then you don't have a society that is going to survive.