You call yourself what you want to call yourself. This is the land of the free.

Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them.

Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more

How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn't see?

Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.

Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman.

How can we tell when trouble shall arise?

Wisdom may teach you that all places are one, but love shows you how to get there.

The silences here are retreats of sound, like the retreat of the surf before a tidal wave: sound draining away, down slopes of acoustic passage, to gather, someplace else, to a great surge of noise.

For I am you and you are I.

Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.

I often get asked why I decided to spend time highlighting the mental health of children.

Facts and credibility only support persuasion.

When all of earth turns against you, all of heaven turns toward you.