George Eliot

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

Jesus is the very concrete truth revealing and standing in for the universal truth.

I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died.

It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.