"I smile at her. "You're an angel." "Nah," she says. "I'm just a girl crazy in love."

“It’s a woman saying something secretive, something in her eyes that’s almost animalistic”

“Think of Jonathan Edwards who thundered the terrors of God and what Hell was like until men grasped their seats and hung on to them, fearing they were falling into Hell itself. Men were moved by fear to escape damnation. That was believed to be Christianity. Why any coward wanted to keep out of Hell. He might not have had one idea in his soul of what was the real true earmark of Christianity.”

“People really love 'Madea' movies and get a kick out of them. They're phenomenally successful. People get excited when a new one's coming out.”

Source : "Old Spice pitchman on breakout role in Tyler Perry picture". Interview with Kam Williams, lasentinel.net. April 22, 2011.

“Initiate giving. Don't wait for someone to ask. See what happens - especially to you. You may find that you gain a greater clarity about yourself and about your relationships, as well as more energy rather than less. You may find that, rather than exhausting yourself or your resources, you will replenish them. Such is the power of mindful, selfless generosity. At the deepest level, there is no giver, no gift, and no recipient . . . only the universe rearranging itself.”

“The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.”

Source : Berthold Auerbach (1874). “On the heights: a novel”, p.187

“In the circle where I was raised, I knew of no one knowledgeable in the visual arts, no one who regularly attended musical performances, and only two adults other than my teachers who spoke without embarrassment of poetry and literature — both of these being women. As far as I can recall, I never heard a man refer to a good or a great book. I knew no one who had mastered, or even studied, another language from choice. And our articulate, conscious life proceeded without acknowledgement of the preceding civilisations which had produced it.”

“I thought I had too much money to be happy and normal. Thousand of pounds is just too much for a working person to handle all of a sudden, and I felt I didnt deserve it.”

“Your destiny is just waiting for you to show up”