So MANY struggled so that all of us could have a VOICE in this GREAT democracy and LIVE up to the first three WORDS of our constitution: We the people. I love that phrase so much. Throughout our country's history, we've expanded the meaning of that phrase to include more and more of us. That's what it means to move forward.

The BOOK to read is not the one which THINKS for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the WORLD equals the BIBLE for that.

I believe race is too HEAVY a BURDEN to carry into the 21st CENTURY. It's time to lay it down. We all came here in different SHIPS, but now we're all in the same boat.

We have fallen into this very mean DESCRIPTION of HUMANITY. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its DEFINITION of human BEINGS.

Prayer is an ACT of love; WORDS are not needed. EVEN if sickness distracts from THOUGHTS, all that is needed is the will to love.

I think that's a STRUGGLE of EVERY Christian, to be able to get to that POINT where they're in constant prayer with God - so that EVERYTHING they do, in thought, in speech, in work, is praising God and worshipping God.

In COMPOSING, as a GENERAL rule, RUN your PEN through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.

I read a book a WEEK, MAN. And I don't have a GREAT MEMORY, but I have a GOOD memory about what I read.

Diligence is the mother of good FORTUNE, and idleness, its OPPOSITE, never brought a man to the GOAL of any of his best wishes.