If I wanted to write, I had to be willing to develop a kind of concentration found mostly in people awaiting execution. I had to learn technique and surrender my ignorance.

Prepare yourself so that you can be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

Light and shadow are opposite sides of the same coin. We can illuminate our paths or darken our way. It is a matter of choice.

Listen to some good poetry. You see? It keeps us from thinking we are only what our blatant appetites describe us as.

The woman who truly intends to live a good life is already living phenomenally since intent is part of the achievement.

I wish that we could look into each other's faces, in each other's eyes, and see our own selves. I hope that the children have not been so scarred by their upbringing that they only think fear when they see someone else who looks separate from them.