Poverty made me feel weak, as if I were coming down with an awful, debilitating, communicable disease - the disease of being without money. Instead of going to the hospital, you went to the poor farm. The difference was, you never got well at the poor farm.

Sometimes the best things in life are unexpected.

Living on hope is like being hungry all the time.

Some people say that suicide is a sin, but I have never believed that. I say it's God's way of calling certain folks home early. It's much nicer than an awful accident, where the rest of us are left wondering if the person really wanted to go.

This is New York, babe. Be ready to expect anything.

He found me when I was at my lowest point.

Not everything in church is truth ... And not all truth turns up in church.