Intuition is seeing the solution.....its emotion and intellect going together.

You can understand conflict, but you don'thave to live in it.

I love going into another world, and I love mysteries. So I don't really like to know very much ahead of time. I like the feeling of dicovery.

When a character comes to life, it’s like meeting a new friend for the first time.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

A Black church that isn't inherently revolutionary is irrelevant.

Faith is reason plus revelation, and the revelation part requires one to think with the spirit as well as with the mind. You have to hear the music, not just read the notes on the page.

The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

Everybody has a different idea of love. One girl I know said, "I knew he loved me when de didn't come in my mouth.

To be without a dog is worse than being without a song.

the Law has made the man and wife one person, and that one person the husband!

I realized, dumb people don't know they're dumb. When people try to make me laugh and they try to be funny, that's when they lose me. I find a lot of comedy in honesty.

The zest for life, which is the source of all passion and all insight, even divine, does not come to us from ourselves.... It is God who has to give us the impulse of wanting him.