There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

I will write on the pages of history what I want them to say. I will be myself. I will speak my own name.

Each of us has the right and the responsibility to assess the roads which lie ahead, and those over which we have traveled, and if the future road looms ominous or unpromising, and the roads back uninviting, then we need to gather our resolve and, carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that as well.

If our children are to approve of themselves, they must see that we approve of ourselves.

The devil lives in our mistakes, the lord lives in our rights. Who lives in our ignorance, and who wins after all?

I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence from June Allyson movies. I knew that was yearning like one yearns to fly.

The first thing I do in the morning when I awaken is say, 'Thank you, Lord!' I'm grateful to be alive, and I'm going to try to tell the truth as well as I know and tell it as eloquently as I can so that people can hear it.