Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.

Listen, God love everything you love - and a mess of stuff you don't. But more than anything else, God love admiration. You saying God vain? I ast. Naw, she say. Not vain, just wanting to share a good thing. I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. What it do when it pissed off? I ast. Oh, it make something else. People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.

I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America's really large shadow and that's not all that bad.

People are called 'stars' not only because they shine... because the qualities they exemplify are... eternal. We are attracted to their sparkle, their warmth, their light, but they will be forever distant from us. So distant we can never quite believe our inseparability. Never quite believe that we are also composed of the light they have.

The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'