My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

All great achievements require time.

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.