Music does more than soothe the soul, it brings balance to the mind, body, and spirit.

When you walk with purpose, you collide with destiny.

I learned long ago that when change comes, you gotta slow down and take note of it. In the midst of that change is all the possibility in the world.

I don't drink or do any drugs. I never have and I never will. I don't need them. I'm a black woman from the land of the free, home of the brave, and I figure I don't need another illusion.

You will never realize how precious a baby is until she keeps you awake through the whole night.

Loneliness is the manifestation of the conflict between our desire for meaning and the absence of objective meaning from the universe.

Is every writer's keyboard a spill magnet?

Disappear! I scream the word in my mind, queen of the desolate landscape therein, ordering her ragged troops to a last stand.

I do believe very strongly that all of us and all of the other things in the context of our planet with Mother Nature, all of these things absolutely have a profound effect.

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

Life is a slate where all our sins are written; from time to time we rub the sponge of repentance over it so we can begin sinning again.

We should remind ourselves that laughing together is as close as you can get to another person without touching, and sometimes it represents a closer tie than touching ever could.

There is a southern proverb - fine words butter no parsnips.

Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice Hath often stilled my brawling discontent.