I was told many years ago by my grandmother who raised me: If somebody puts you on a road and you don't feel comfortable on it and you look ahead and you don't like the destination and you look behind and you don't want to return to that place, step off the road.

I keep on dying, Because I love to live

All knowledge is spendable currency, depending on the market.

Moderation in all things. And even moderation in moderation. Don't get too much moderation, you know?

If I'm the people's poet, then I ought to be in people's hands - and, I hope, in their heart.

I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.

The most difficult thing in the world, it seems to me, is to realize that I am a child of God; to keep that in my mind all the time.