I BEGIN each day with prayer and MEDITATION. Throughout the day, I use affirmations and POSITIVE intentions to move through blocks, and each EVENING, I CLOSE the day with self-reflection and an inventory of my growth throughout the day.

The wish to PRAY is a PRAYER in itself. God can ASK no more than that of US.

Under CERTAIN circumstances, urgent circumstances, DESPERATE circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied EVEN to PRAYER.

The fewer the WORDS, the BETTER the PRAYER.

When I was a CHILD, we NEVER began a MEAL without PRAYER. We thanked God for the FOOD, for each other.

Each book I write is a SHOUT into the SILENCE and a prayer and a plea for CHANGE.

Prayer and dependence on God has been our HISTORY. How unfortunate it is now that an unaccountable and unelected and misguided JUDGE from WISCONSIN, Judge Barbara Crabb, has declared National Days of Prayer - established by the CONGRESS - to be unconstitutional.

Begin each DAY with PRIVATE reading of the Word and prayer.

Without our faith, we wouldn't have been ABLE to succeed. On many occasions, before we'd go out on a sit-in, before we went on the freedom ride, before we marched from Selma to Montgomery, we would sing a song or say a prayer. Without our faith, without the SPIRIT and SPIRITUAL bearings and underpinning, we would not have been so successful.

I GO to a small Catholic SCHOOL where we have mass every week and say a PRAYER every morning, but we ALSO are in Los Angeles, where people are so progressive and open.

When I have had such men before my camera my whole soul has endeavored to do its DUTY towards them in recording faithfully the greatness of the INNER as WELL as the features of the outer MAN. The photograph thus taken has been almost the embodiment of a prayer.

Let GOD's grace be the mosque, and DEVOTION the prayer MAT. Let the Quran be the good conduct.

The power of PRAYER and faith in GOD is something that has guided so many of us in good times and BAD.