Think of your mother and smile for all of the good precious moments.

Making the ungrateful grateful will bring tears to your eyes, tears of blood bleeding from the heart.

Ungrateful people forget what they are not grateful for.

Don't ever lose hope because better days will come.

Choose your friends and mates, not by the money in their bank account, creed, ethnicity, or color; instead, choose character, actions, heart, and soul. When we bleed, we bleed the same color.

Strength of the mind is more powerful than strength of the muscles.

Whatever is going to happen will happen, whether we worry or not.

Good thing I'm aging, otherwise I'd be dead.

My daughter and two sons are the flowers in my heart and garden.

Treat other people's home as you want them to respect yours because what goes around comes around.

I love God, Jesus Christ, my three children, mother, father, brother, sisters, family in general, my pets, my students, and true friends.

You're broke, eh?"I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate.

There is no transcending our minds, only using them optimally.

The essence of life: be good to all souls like you seek them to be good to your soul.

We put stereotypes on ourselves - like, everybody does that. But I think it's just a little harder for black kids to just like, you know, be who they are.

I think looking forward will be better than looking back.

Paparazzi will try to get the most controversial picture of you in a compromising position because that's how they're going to sell it.

I hope this brings someone else the courage they need to face whatever challenge is before them.

God's place is the world but the world is not God's place.

You can't possibly fathom the ins and outs of a prepubescent beauty treatment until you've felt the strange but exhilarating tingle of a cottage-cheese-and-Pop-Rocks facial.

The eye seems to be responding to something living.