I have heard it said that winter, too, will pass, that spring is a sign that summer is due at last. See, all we have to do is hang on.

All great achievements require time.

If you're a human being, you can attempt to do what other human beings have done. We don't understand talent any more than we understand electricity.

I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool - and I'm not any of those - to say that I don't write for the reader. I do. But for the reader who hears, who really will work at it, going behind what I seem to say. So I write for myself and that reader who will pay the dues.

Someone was hurt before you, wronged before you, hungry before you, frightened before you, beaten before you, humiliated before you, raped before you... yet, someone survived... You can do anything you choose to do.

When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, 'Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.'

Today, the first & last of every Tree/ Speaks to humankind. Come to me, here beside the River.