I'd rather be pleasantly surprised than fatally disappointed.

Passion can transform the mind, body and spirit...Passion can align you with the wisdom of nature and the power of what is in your heart.

It would be impossible to be a woman in Western culture and not have your own issues about your image and what you look like.

I don't have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing.

Serve God and live; serve these other gods and died.

A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.

Nobody really wants us. So let us watch and say jaggy things, in the hope that some of them will hurt.

You cannot fully understand your own life without knowing and thinking beyond your life, your own neighborhood, and even your own nation.

Black crime rates fell more steeply than white crime rates, and now black incarceration is falling more steeply than white incarceration.

When you're walking through the darkness, you can't depend on anything or anyone else to light your way. You have to rely on whatever sparks you've got inside you. Or you're going to get lost.

We are none of us promised anything but the last breath we take.