The essentials are to learn to shape God with forethought, care, and work; to educate and benefit their community, their families and themselves; and to contribute to the fulfillment of the Destiny.

I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.

All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change. God is Change.

In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn.

To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.

Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers.

Kindness eases change Love quiets fear

When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.

We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose.

There is no end To what a living world Will demand of you.

Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be.

There were never going to be any happy ending for me. I know that now. But that is all right. That is all right.

Nothing is whole, not for too damned long. The world is half night.

It is only life and love that give love and life.

Life breaks us all, but you're stronger in the places that were broken. Or you can essentially crumble, give up, and, you know, waste your life.

Bein' rich is having leftovers. Good leftovers make yo' tongue fly outta yo' mouth and smack yo' brains out.

Saint Claire, the patron saint of the kick-me sign.

I lust love to play football.

Life is in the here and now. Either we meet it, we live it-or we miss it.

A man without a woman is like a neck without a pain.

The way you see your future determines your thinking today. You're thinking today determines your performance today. Your performance in the today of your life determines your future.