"The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day."

“My mom is my hero. [She] inspired me to dream when I was a kid, so anytime anyone inspires you to dream, that's gotta be your hero.”

“I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.”

“Christianity is a faith in which God sent his Son to die for you.”

“It takes a lot of physical and spiritual energy to balance on one wheel. Seen?”

“Sometimes what makes us insecure and vulnerable becomes the fuel we need to be overachievers. The antidote for a snakebite is made from the poison, and the thing that made you go backward is the same force that will push you forward.”

Source : T.D. Jakes (2007). “Reposition Yourself: Living Life Without Limits”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

“He [God] watched over me before I knew him, and before I learned sense or even distinguished between good and evil, and he protected me, and consoled me as a father would his son.”

“A good mother is irreplaceable.”

Source : Adriana Trigiani (2012). “The Wisdom of My Grandmothers: Lessons to live by, from one generation of remarkable women to the next”, p.117, Simon and Schuster

“I encouraged the cast to make up their own lines.”