As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good.

I believe in living a poetic life, an art full life. Everything we do from the way we raise our children to the way we welcome our friends is part of a large canvas we are creating.

Hope is born again in the faces of children.

She comprehended the perversity of life, that in the struggle lies the joy.

My great blessing is my son, but I have daughters. I have white ones and Black ones and fat ones and thin ones and pretty ones and plain. I have gay ones and straight. I have daughters. I have Asian ones, I have Jewish ones, I have Muslim ones.

The whites were really brutishly ignorant, blitheringly, so they killed people sometimes - just came into the African-American community and maimed people because they didn't agree with God's choice for the colors of the people's skin.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.