You live your life today, Not tommorow, and certainly not yesterday.

In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.

One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers.

Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.

Jesus preached more and taught more about helping the poor and the sick and the hungry than he did about heaven and hell. Shouldn't that tell us something?

When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious.

If you're gonna be stupid you gotta be tough.

When you work at street level you never know who's going to walk through your door.

Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it.

judge not that ye be not judged

I'm alone and outgunned, scared and inexperienced, but I'm right.

Too many kings can ruin an army

After Wakefield Poole's films, mine are unnecessary and a bit naive, don't you think?

Nothing is more fatal to success than taking one's job as a matter of course.

Many prominent scientists - including Darwin, Einstein, and Planck - have considered the concept of God very seriously. What are your thoughts on the concept of God and on the existence of God?

When everything is said and done there is nothing left to do or say.

A person supporting [Donald]Trump likes Trump. And I think they would say the same about me.

People say I'm the white Aretha Franklin. I wish I was her.

Education is the great equalizer of our time. It gives hope to the hopeless and creates chances for those without.

Make your product easier to buy than your competition, or you will find your customers buying from them, not you.

In prayer we call ourselves 'worms of the dust', but it is only on a sort of tacit understanding that the remark shall not be taken at par.