A leader sees greatness in other people. He nor she can be much of a leader if all she sees is herself.

If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers.

Forgive yourself - no one else will.

When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.

The autobiographer looks at life through the lens of his or her own life and really uses herself or himself as the jumping-off place to examine the social mores and the economic and political climates. In a way, the autobiography becomes history as well as the story of one person, for it becomes the story of a family or the story of the state or nation.

A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but a woman called by a devaluing name will only be weakened by the misnomer.

I'm a descendant of someone bought and sold, and brought in 1619 in what was to become the United States.