Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself.

I am just a tiny person in Africa, but there is a place for me, and for everybody, to sit down on this earth and touch it and call it their own.

The previously unloved may find it hard to believe that they are now loved; that is such a miracle, they feel; such a miracle.

As a writer I've learned certain lessons. One of them is to be careful about how you put a view, and to bear in mind how easily and readily you'll be misinterpreted.

As a writer, I have readers who will have a range of political views. I don't think they look to me for political guidance.

If your ceiling should fall down, then you have lost a room, but gained a courtyard. Think of it that way.

It's a different sort of love taht puts up with illness. Old love.