People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.

Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.

We don't ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.

I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.

Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.

We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.

Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else.

I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we're here and we're healthy.

Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.

Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.

Sitting outside on a dark night, under the stars, invites confidences amongst people of all ages, and all walks of life. It invokes an intimacy you don’t find under most other circumstances.

All my happiness seems caught up in one of your smiles. - Jered Mandeville, 'Upon a Wicked Time

Some of us are so terribly broken.

Faith is never identical with piety.

My miseries have always come out of my own flesh, never from any burden Jesus has laid on me.

Everything you experience mirrors a part of you.

CAFE is like trying to cure obesity by requiring clothing manufacturers to make smaller sizes.

If you don't have the right people around you and you're moving at a million miles an hour you can lose yourself.

The mind needs stories as much as the body needs food. There are junk stories and more nourishing ones. The food we eat becomes our bodies, assimilated stories form our identities

I want people to see the dress, but focus on the woman.