Every journey begins with a single step.

I like to know what's happening.

All my work, my life, everything I do is about survival, not just bare, awful, plodding survival, but survival with grace and faith. While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.

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

I'm grateful to be of use. I will not be misused or abused, but I will be of use to anybody.

I was told many years ago by my grandmother who raised me: If somebody puts you on a road and you don't feel comfortable on it and you look ahead and you don't like the destination and you look behind and you don't want to return to that place, step off the road.

The dread of futility has been my life-long plague.