I'm a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black,...an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.

I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.

All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change. God is Change.

In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn.

To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.

Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers.

Kindness eases change Love quiets fear

When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.

We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose.

There is no end To what a living world Will demand of you.

Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be.

A clever schoolboy's reaction to his reading is most naturally expressed by parody or imitation.

Somewhere, somebody is looking for someone exactly like you.

Try to stop Rewinding and Fast Forward into something better.

You got off on the wrong foot. I merely watched you shove it into your mouth.

I love hitting-that's my favorite part of the game.

Is then thy knowledge of no value, unless another know that thou possessest that knowledge?

A ready smile concealed a firm mind.

Oh, these people's minds work in strange ways, Petunia, they're not like you and me," said Uncle Vernon, trying to knock in a nail with the piece of fruitcake Aunt Petunia had just brought him.

Socialist society is a society of officials.

For God to reveal His Son in us is not the result of research or searching; it is entirely a matter of mercy and revelation. It is an inward seeing, an inner knowing.