"I teach high school math. I sell a product to a market that doesn't want it, but is forced by law to buy it."

“Although there are many plans in a loving heart,but only God’s will is sufficiently established.”

“The very concept of law that protects us from tyranny has been lost. No longer the people's shield, law has become a weapon in the hands of government.”

“I feel like I was drafted to play football, not carry another player's pads.”

Source : "Dez Bryant Refuses Roy Williams’ Rookie Hazing". www.huffingtonpost.com. July 26, 2010.

“Courage is a scorner of things which inspire fear.”

“People will listen to sophisticated physicists, using God as a kind of metaphor for the deep constants, the deep problems, the deep principles of physics, and say that in that sense I believe in God. The reaction is, "Oh, this great physicist believes in God - that means I'm free to believe in the trinity and in the crucifixion and in the reincarnation of Christ" - and all that stuff, which of course has nothing whatever to do with the fundamental constants of physics, which is what these physicists are talking about.”

“Is it the responsibility of the colored artist or the ethnic artist to create works that are designed to exist in opposition to a certain political structure?”

“For a long time I was lost. My life got a lot better when I stopped thinking about my life and started thinking about my work and the purpose of that work.”

Source : "The Misadventures of Iris Smyles". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 29, 2016.

“You can drift into sin, but not into righteousness.”