I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.

I do hope that young men and women will start to think for themselves and start to take responsibility for their own thoughts.

A mother's love liberates.

The public library building, in my view, is just a little lower than the church, the cathedral, the temple, the synagogue and the mosque. Within those walls and along those stacks, I have found security and assurance.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good.

I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.