Whatever God wants is fine by me. . . . I've had the very best life. I have tasted beauty

Scatman, fat man, black and white and brown man, tell me 'bout the color of your soul.

If a castle gets destroyed, you just build a new one. If you wanted me to I'd build them over and over. Let's build them together.

Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.

Before you call yourself a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or any other theology, learn to be human first.

God is just, and our lots are well portioned out by Him, although none, but He knows the bitterness of our souls.

Scott Fitzgerald was mortally afraid of lightning.

Charles Sumner's mind had reached the calm of WATER which receives and reflects images without absorbing them; it contains nothing but itself.

And that's when I realized, when you're a kid you don't need a costume, you ARE superman.

The really great athletes make their news on the field, not off the field.

My first love was reading, which inspired me to write.

I would have to say that my mother's entrepreneurial perspective, and that of her father's, are very evident in my own outlook.