Writing is a product of silence.

Our behavior is human with a sliver of animal, our souls animal with a sliver of human.

Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears.

Life can be just black and white, but with imagination, life is a kaleidoscope of exhilarating colors and breathtaking adventures.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

I'm a person who is only invested in the pleasures and enjoyments of life. All the rest is left to the men. I've always remained what you might call "feminine" about the whole [work] thing.

For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.

You are going to love me until I die. I’m going to make you love me even if it hurts, and when it hurts, I’m going to make it better, Brooke.

In Africa I discovered what the true purpose of a musician is. We are historians, and it is our purpose to tell the people the true story of our past, and to extend a better vision of the future.

When you look at "American Crime" and you have the character Terri LaCroix is a pharmaceutical executive - why does that character always have to be white?

Suffering is the very best gift He has to give us. He gives it only to His chosen friends.

I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.