If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed.

If you have, give. If you learn, teach.

When we find someone who is brave, fun, intelligent, and loving, we have to thank the universe.

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

If we live long enough, we may even get over war. I imagine a time when somebody will mention the word war and everyone in the room will start to laugh. And what do you mean war?

We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. It may even be necessary to encounter the defeat so that we can know who we are. So that we can see, "Oh, that happened, and I rose. I did get knocked down flat in front of the whole world, and I rose. I didn't run away; I rose right where I'd been knocked down." That's how you get to know yourself.

If a person - any human being - is told often enough, "You are nothing. You are nothing. You account for nothing. You count for nothing. You are less than a human being. I have no visibility of you", the person finally begins to believe it.