If you knew me yesterday, please do not think that it is the same person that you are meeting today.

You can't reinvent yourself for every movie.

The genius of Christian spirituality is to integrate [the] spirit of possession with the spirit of dispossession. The spirit of dispossession implies that all the good and delightful things of this world are never allowed to own, possess, or shackle me. Dispossession implies that I am always free, my own person, liberated from the tyranny that possession can easily exercise over us.

Loneliness is the prison of the human spirit. When we are lonely, we pace back and forth in small, shut-in worlds.

The real gift of love is self disclosure.

Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites.

There's the whole myth about rocket science. It's really not that hard. It's not brain surgery.