Sometimes, kids want you to hurt the way they hurt.

Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.

When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.

Accept who you are; and revel in it.

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.

We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.

The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.

Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.

Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say.

Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent.

I figured in the modern world, considering, Jesus himself would have likely been born in a frat house.

Not the power to remember but its very opposite the power to forget is a necessary condition for our existence.

My accent depends on whom I'm around.

Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

Essex is an amazing county, with its own set of rules. It's a completely different world.

Lord, teach us to take our hearts and look them in the face, however difficult it may be.

You see what you know!

Devotion to God is still a voluntary thing; hence the differences of attainment among Christians.

Body and soul, Black America reveals the extreme questions of contemporary life, questions of freedom and identity: How can I be who I am?

Editing is a very tough period. You're confronted with yourself. It's a deep, dark, truthful mirror.