[On speaking of family secrets:] I don't know how you heal a wound and not let it get some air.

I wanted to pay homage to working women because they are the bridge that got us over.' My work is about the people who are assumed not to have a worldview.

No matter how old we get, life's always got a lesson for you. Most likely one you've learned ten times before.

"Criminal justice" was a term she found more apt than it was meant to be.

For just once in my life, I'd like to get through a whole week without having to deal with some fool, white or black, who's got an attitude about the way I look.

I put on lip balm first thing in the morning and always use it before I swipe on my red lipstick.

When memories fade, can one ever really return home?

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

The Eucharist is that love which surpasses all loves in Heaven and on earth

The concepts "beyond" and "real world" were invented in order to depreciate the only world that exists-in order that no goal, no aim or task might be left for our earthly reality.

A house of which one knew every room wasn't worth living in.

A yak is a prehistoric cabbage; of that, we can be sure.

When you say a prayer, He (The Holy Spirit) is in every word of it, and like a Holy Fire, penetrates each word.

Fear of my cruel impulses makes me kind.

Success is not the measure of a man but a triumph over those who choose to hold him back.