I have not survived against all odds. I have not lived to tell. I have not witnessed the extraordinary. This is my story.

At the end of life, at the end of YOUR life, what essence emerges? What have you filled the world with? In remembering you, what words will others choose?

From the earliest age on, even as we toy with it, we instinctively know there is something mighty about the truth, that it is an immobile, looming star. We grow to crave it.

No one ever went to their deathbed saying, 'You know, I wish I'd eaten more rice cakes.

Peace means no one is worried about anyone else's cookie...in this moment we are all quietly content with the cookies we have.

cozy+smell of pancakes-alarm clock=weekend

It often feels like I'm not so much living for the present as I am busy making memories for the future.

It would be difficult to convince me that leaning has no effect whatsoever on the outcome of my bowling.

I am a slow reader, and fast eater; I wish it were the other way around.

I wish I had eaten more rice cakes.

If you want to grow up to be a big, strong pea, you have to eat your candy," Papa Pea would say.

Descriptive grammar is an attempt to give an account of what the current system is for either a society or an individual, whatever you happen to be studying.

We played in Texas about a year ago, at Emo's, the famous country and western club in Austin. And I figured, well, if I'm finally gonna die onstage, that's where it's going to be!

Without faith, God's grace is wasted, & without grace, faith is powerless.

Too close a view may interfere with one's grasp of an overall problem or concept.

Your first obligation, I suppose, is to your God. Your second is to your family. And your third is to your community. And you ought to try to fulfill all of those in your life.

In your daytime life you have to be more strict.

I wouldn't say I wanna conquer the world anymore. But I want to be a part of making the world a better place. I want to inspire people and I wanna be part of the solution.

I seek to widen, narrow narratives of women of color.

Let's return to our first love, in order to receive the fire which Jesus has kindled in the world and to bring that fire to all people, to the very ends of the earth.

The best would be to have friends who came and went away; but if I had to choose between their never coming or never going away, I think I would choose that they do not come.