“I believe that God gave us life for happiness, not misery.”

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.

For one wild, glad moment we snapped the chain that binds us to earth, and joining hands with the winds we felt ourselves divine.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision.

Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within.

The most beautiful world is always entered through imagination.

College isn’t the place to go for ideas.

One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.

So long as you can sweeten another’s pain, life is not in vain.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.

Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.

Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another’s pain, life is not in vain.

Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.

Good friends walk in when the old ones walk out.

Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.

Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

I have always believed that if you want to achieve anything special in life you have to work, work, and then work some more.

Ask for what you want. Believe that you deserve it, and then allow Life to give it to you.

There are those who believe justice and dignity are reserved only for some people. Young men have died in police custody, and the growing heel of poverty has worn down harder on children of color…We must fight back.

There are no good reasons to believe in god.

I’m a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.

There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.

Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray Him to empty us.

We have been given God in our souls and Christ in our flesh. We have the power to believe where others deny, to hope where others despair, to love where others hurt.