And if your friends make fun of you for chasing your dream, remember—just lie.

Wasn't that the point of the book? For women to realize, We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought.

Write about what disturbs you, particularly if it bothers no one else.

Ever morning, until you dead in the ground, you gone have to make this decision. You gone have to ask yourself, "Am I gone believe what them fools say about me today?

I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they must be good.

....I realized I actually had a choice in what I could believe.

You is kind. You is smart. You is important.

Great books give you a feeling that you miss all day, until you finally get to crawl back inside those pages again.

...and that's when I get to wondering, what would happen if I told her she something good, ever day?

I was surprise to see the world didn't stop just cause my boy did.

Who knew paper and ink could be so vicious

A powerful vision has the therapeutic effect of numbing the pain of what it will cost you

Behind every smile there is love, thought, and action.

Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.

Knowledge has a beginning but no end.

A lot of times people have issues with me because they don't understand where I'm coming from and haven't seen the years and years of hard work and shows I've played.

Give thanks to God, who made necessary things simple, and complicated things unnecessary.

If we wait long enough, a teacher will answer her own question, so we won't have to do much work.

I'd like to be in a man band, but with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and Keith Richards. We'd have a rocky edge.

You don't help a depressed economy by giving control of its resources to politicians.

If prayer is you talking to God, then intuition is God talking to you.