Is it a weakness not being able to hate? Or is it preparation for what is inevitable, the ability only to love.

Some people spend their whole lives seeking heaven, when all they needed to do was look about them, and embrace that which was already there.

These days, a sling of truth, still can make Goliath fall.

When fear no longer takes hold, the possibilities are endless.

To win or lose often depends on set parameters. Expand the bounds of what is possible, and you may come out the true winner, outside the confines of its defining.

Time is an illusion, only the keepers of the illusion are real, and the reality they have spun, keeps us, until we set upon the path of the dream.

Let go and go beyond living the dream, by dreaming the reality, into a reality beyond the dream.

My goal is not to upset the apple cart, but to make it more accessible.

The only way I could conceive of waving a white flag, would be during the process of folding it, so to be used as a napkin later, at our victory dinner.

Parenting is a sacred responsibility with the sobering reality, of raising scholars or scars.

Theater is the crucible where we can create the dynamics of life without suffering the flames of their combustion.

Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.

In a crisis, don't hide behind anything or anybody. They're going to find you anyway.

If I'm feeling hurt, sad, lonely, depressed, and then I shame myself for feeling that, then that's a black hole for me. I really have worked a lot to meet pain with both gratitude and gentleness.

Give me five players like Robinson and a pitcher and I'll beat any nine-man team in baseball.

Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.

Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.

To the artist, the Book of Genesis is an account of six days in which God suggested some really good ideas.

Encourage your trillions of faithful little cells through joy, happiness and confidence. Thank them, talk to them, sing to them.

The good Lord in his ultimate wisdom gave us three things to make life bearable: hope, jokes, and dogs, but the greatest of these was dogs.

My world did not shrink because I was a black female writer. It just got bigger.