It's very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

You never get over the fear of writing.

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.

Everybody in the world wants the same thing...to be needed...a job that he/she can do well...to love somebody...Everybody...There's no mystery.

We are only as blind as we want to be.