Every day, I get closer to God. Every day, my will to do the right thing gets stronger.

The snake, the rat, the cat, the dog... How you gonna see 'em if you livin' in the fog?

I just find myself happy with the simple things. Appreciating the blessings God gave me.

Don't believe everything you hear, don't believe everything you read and only believe half of what you see

The curse turned to grace when the hurt turned to faith.

Right, wrong, good, bad, heaven, hell. I think that is the theme of my life. I think you have to know both in order to honestly choose one. So I'm familiar with both sides of the fence.

Never become so involved with something that it blinds you. Never forget where you from; someone will remind you.

If your heart was as big as your mouth you'd be real.

Be careful of the ones that always wanna get you high, cause when the time comes, that one'll let you die.

The minute you get too big to mop a floor or wipe a counter, that's the exact minute you have life f**ked up.

No matter how hard it rains, withstand the pain.

When all hope is gone and your back is against the wall, ‘Pray.’ Ask God to guide you and he will take good care of you.

Laurence felt a weird combination of shame and rage, as though he'd grown another new body part just in time to get punched in it.

Think about what’s pleasurable, not just what’s possible.

Western science is a product of the Apollonian mind: its hope is that by naming and classification, by the cold light of intellect, archaic night can be pushed back and defeated.

We don't mind working hard to be successful. We don't mind working to be at our best.

I like writing better. Because I don't have to wear makeup, I don't have to be thin, and I don't have to remember lines.

True charity requires courage: Let us overcome the fear of getting our hands dirty so as to help those in need.

Despotism has so often been established in the name of liberty that experience should warn us to judge parties by their practices rather than their preachings.

All things are from water and all things are resolved into water.

Faith is a gift of God, which man can neither give nor take away by promise of rewards or menace of torture.