I always felt, if I can get to a library, I'll be OK.

Poetry gave me back my voice.

The nice thing about HOPE is that you can give it to someone else, someone who needs it even more than you do, and you will find you have not given yours away at all.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.

Being free is being able to accept people for what they are, and not try to understand all they are or be what they are.

Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, "I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."