My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality and art and what insects and birds and human beings had in common. He told me what it meant to be a man and to be a Black man. He taught me about love and responsibility, about beauty, and how to make gumbo.

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

Only the shallow know themselves.

Oscar Wilde

The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon.

William Feather

It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.

George Eliot

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

Joseph Roux

I don't wanna hear nobody complain that they're getting paid all this money and people won't leave them alone. It's part of it.

Mark Wahlberg

The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

It's easy, there's a trick to it, you do it or you die.

Neil Gaiman

I have so much respect for my mom and all the women across the world.

Jessica Simpson

Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.

Henry Ward Beecher

What the world neglects, the Lord accepts.

Deborah Brodie