You is blessin’ folks with your dollars and service, but a dollar bill and plate of food ain’t changin’ a life. That takes love.

If you really serious ’bout helpin’ somebody, crawl down in the ditch with ’em, bandage up their wounds, and stick with ’em until they is strong enough to crawl up on your back and get out

The truth about it is, whether we is rich or poor or something in between, this earth ain't no final restin place. So in a way, we is all homeless - just workin our way toward home.

When you is precious to God, you become important to Satan. Watch your back.

People think they're in control, but they ain't. The truth is, that which must befall thee must befall thee. And that which must pass thee by must pass thee by.

There's something I learned when I was homeless: Our limitation is God's opportunity. When you get all the way to the end of your rope and there ain't nothin you can do, that's when God takes over.

The Word says God don't give us credit for lovin the folks we want to love anyway. No, He gives us credit for loving the unlovable.

Our limitation is God’s opportunity

I found out everybody's different--the same kind of different as me. We're all just regular folks walkin down the road God done set in front of us.

Sometimes you successful folks can rise up so high reaching for more stuff that you miss knowing God. But you can never stoop low to help somebody and have God miss knowing you

when you is precious to God, you is important to Satan. Watch your backside, somethin’ is gettin’ ready to happen

I am dead to you, but you are living in me.

We reject this illegal, barbarous, savage state that calls itself Israel. And you have to do the same.

I can't seem to stay out of my own way.

I'm always on the quest for something delicious and healthful.

My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement ended, she shot from the synagogue like a rocket to dance the Charleston.

The role of the human brain was to rationalize suffering.

If you can’t run, walk; if you can’t walk, crawl, but keep moving forward!

I'm not suspicious, I'm just careful.

Faulkner came from my region and taught me how you could write about a place.

Money's only important when you don't have any.