I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.

Leaving behind nights of terror and fear, I rise. Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear, I rise.

If you are going down a road and don't like what's in front of you, and look behind you and don't like what you see, get off the road. Create a new path!

I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.

I believed that there was a God because I was told it by my grandmother and later by other adults. But when I found that I knew not only that there was God but that I was a child of God, when I understood that, when I comprehended that, more than that, when I internalized that, ingested that, I became courageous.

I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine ... before she realizes she's reading.

Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily.