There is fear, police in fear, people if are in fear, children are fear, but fear and hate must not drive our agenda, love and hope and healing must drive the agenda.

If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.

When everyone is included, everyone wins.

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.

Inclusion is not a matter of political correctness. It is the key to growth.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.

Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Our flag is read, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbown-red, yellow, brown, black and white - and we're all precious in God's sight.

The only true experience is of the immediate present

Choose carefully. Success in life depends on the choices you make.

It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency.

A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.

Aquinas brought an Aristotelian view of reason back into European culture, and lighted the way toward the Renaissance.

The coffee was so strong it snarled as it lurched out of the pot.

My business is only to keep myself in motion, whilst motion pleases me; I only walk for the walk's sake.

There are things you stand up for because it’s right.

Shut up, sod off, and let me in. (Fury)

Other people write about the bling and the booty. I write about the pus and the gnats. To me, that's beautiful.