Comfort is a powerful sedative.

We are what ballads are written of, what bards sing of. We are epic, you and I.

Each life has its share of heroism, an obscure heroism, born of abdication, of renunciation and acceptance under the merciless whip of fate.

Those who do not complain are never pitied.

Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones

Music is the reason I'm doing movies; I do credit that. But acting is an escape route for me.

Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel.

Science is not perfect. It's often misused; it's only a tool, but it's the best tool we have. Self-correcting , ever changing, applicable to everything: with this tool, we vanquish the impossible.

As a doctor I had no choice. As a philosopher I had too many.

God in my mind gives you what you need. So, if you need God to be a black woman and you need that for whatever your reasons are, then perhaps your blessings will come in that form.

He [God] is using me, all the time, everywhere, to stand up for a biblical worldview in everything that I do and everywhere I am. He is training me.

Words learn'd by rote a parrot may rehearse, But talking is not always to converse, Not more distinct from harmony divine The constant creaking of a country sign.