If you do not like anything, alter it. If you can not change it, adjust your mindset. Will not complain.

The nice thing about HOPE is that you can give it to someone else, someone who needs it even more than you do, and you will find you have not given yours away at all.

Life is a glorious banquet, a limitless and delicious buffet.

We are not just flesh and blood. And our hungers are not going to be set aside as just flesh and blood.

I also wear a hat or a very tightly pulled head tie when I write. I suppose I hope by doing that I will keep my brains from seeping out of my scalp and running in great gray blobs down my neck, into my ears, and over my face.

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.

The public library building, in my view, is just a little lower than the church, the cathedral, the temple, the synagogue and the mosque. Within those walls and along those stacks, I have found security and assurance.