May my heart be your shelter, and my arms be your home.

One of the shocks of a 50th birthday is realizing the fundamental fact that your youth is irrevocably over.

While women were powerfully liberated both externally as well as internally by the feminism of the 1970s, we made some serious mistakes as well.

I want a woman president - really, I do.

My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers, without the least defect. This is what the law of God requires, but what the saints cannot attain to in this life.

Let's say black, the whole black religious experience, here, is very impressive to me, because when I first arrived I realized that people carry their faith with so much pride.

I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.