There were tough thoughts battling one another inside his head for the right to become reality.

The only thing better than a well-read book is a well-read book only read by yourself.

Reading for enjoyment won't die altogether, but this Ereader device has the potential to repel those less imaginative from fiction. And that could have an undesirable domino effect.

With a little bit of spirit in her system to help her weave the lies and facts together, Emily told the partial truth.

The only thing more interesting than the truth is fiction dressed up as the truth.

We go round and round trying to convince one another that our opinion makes more sense. And the only winner is time for making us look like fools by wasting it.

If that's the example you want set, you be the example.

I tried to kill myself when I was thirteen but failed. That was the greatest failure of my life.

Young lovers. If you get it right, it's amazing what you can share. The challenging part is maintaining it.

No one knows if something works until it actually works. That's why you must always try.

Fear doesn't gain respect. It just makes people do what you want to shut you up and get you away from them.

History isn't what happened, history is just what historians tell us.

All history is one continuous pestilence. There is no truth and there is no illusion. There is nowhere to appeal and nowhere to go.

A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.

Be spontaneous, be creative, go out and have fun, let things happen naturally.

God is a writer and we are both the heroes and the readers.

The political philosophy of black nationalism means that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community; no more.

Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.

There is no such thing as a soulmate...and who would want there to be? I don't want half of a shared soul. I want my own damn soul.

[Queen Elizabeth] is just the granny queen! She's our granny queen who shakes people's hands!