That's what happens with writing. Ingredients bubble and cook. Material becomes substance.

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.

Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.

Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.

The way to succeed is never quit. Thats it. But really be humble about it.

Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.

Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down.

Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.

When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.

When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand.

You have to deal with the fact that your life is your life.

Learn the truth...never assume.Understand the plight...never judge.Put yourself in someone's shoes...never hurt.Think before you act, reason before you react.

Be Still My Heart while God is Healing me inside

We entertain God's Truth not as a guest but as master of the house.

'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn't even get nominated for an Academy Award.

The accumulation of toxins in the body/mind system accelerates aging.

My greatest accomplishment so far is to keep selling enough that I never want for the labor that sustains my Presbyterian soul.

I have resolved to pick one novel and just read it over and over again for the rest of my life, because I cannot remember anything anymore.

I wondered if i would spend the rest of my life inventing complicated ways to depress myself.

Only poetry can address grief.

Every treasure on this earth says, 'Give your life to purchase me.' Jesus says 'I'm the one treasure who died to purchase you.'