While I've spent a lot of quality time with my children, perhaps it's not been enough.

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.

Poetry is born

I know it's a lot. But she can handle it. I'd rather ruin her with the truth than ruin her with lies.

Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.

Back then it was a different culture. It was very loose. I was young. I was stupid.

Everything had come into sharp focus : his smooth words, his black, glinting eyes, his broad experience with lies, seduction, women. I'd fallen in love with the devil.

Each aspect within us needs understanding and compassion. If we are unwilling to give it to ourselves how can we expect the world to give it to us?

Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's not logical at all.

All those days that came and went, little did I know that they were life.

But then you make eye contact with someone across the room and it clicks and you’re right there in love again.

the set pieces of your faces stir me - leading citizens - but not in the same way.