No matter how old you are, there's always something good to look forward to.

Never tell anyone that you're writing a book, going on a diet, exercising, taking a course, or quitting smoking. They'll encourage you to death.

Every time I "get with the program"... somebody changes the channel.

You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but in my family it was my mother. My mother, I would say, was a... very brutal disciplinarian.

Photographs help people look at things they may not be able or may not want to look at. Until you can look at something, you can't change it. First you have to look at it, then you have a chance to understand it and can change it.

My mother was a very literate person who had educated herself. She had an exceptional vocabulary.

Only a couple of times have I ever been to church and felt enlightened by it.