“Grief which is not dealt with properly can cause us to lose our perspective on life.”

“Happiness isn't getting all that you want. It's enjoying all that you have.”

“You can’t let other people determine how far you are willing to go to reach Destiny because it’s simply not their call. They don’t get it, so don’t worry about them!” 

Pooh! Grown-ups are always thinking of uninteresting explanations.”

“The hopeful lenses of our eyes are fixed on the busy hands of our dependable God... He is working hardly on our prayers... Don't be afraid!”

“You become what you believe. And to believe that you are created by the power that's greater than yourself means anything is possible.”

“...you cannot eat every tadpole and frog in the pond, but you can eat the biggest and ugliest one, and that will be enough, at least for the time being. ”

“There is nothing known as "Perfect". Its only those imperfections which we choose not to see!!”

“No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.”

“If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.”

“Attitude is one of the most contagious qualities a human being possesses.”

“The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible.

“They, they, they. That was the problem with people like Joyce. They talked about the richness of their multicultural heritage and it sounded real good, until you noticed that they avoided black people. It wasn't a matter of conscious choice, necessarily, just a matter of gravitational pull, the way integration always worked, a one-way street. The minority assimilated into the dominant culture, not the other way around. Only white culture could be neutral and objective. Only white culture could be nonracial, willing to adopt the occasional exotic into its ranks. Only white culture had individuals. And we, the half-breeds and the college-degreed, take a survey of the situation and think to ourselves, Why should we get lumped in with the losers if we don't want to? We become only so grateful to lose ourselves in the crowd, America's happy, faceless marketplace; and we're never so outraged as when a cabbie drives past us or the woman in the elevator clutches her purse, not so much because we're bothered by the fact that such indignities are what less fortunate coloreds have to put up with every single day of their lives-- although that's what we tell ourselves-- but because we're wearing a Brooks Brothers suit and speak impeccable English and yet have somehow been mistaken for an ordinary nigger. Don't know who I am? I'm an individual!”

“As Christians, we have only one authority, one compass: the Word of God.”

“Watch the one ahead of you, and you’ll learn why he is ahead. Then emulate him.”