It's still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future.

Hope does not take away your problems. It can lift you above them.

One of the saddest things in the world is to see a cynical young person.

Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I'd listen to Italian music.

Each child belongs to all of us and they will bring us a tomorrow in direct relation to the responsibility we have shown to them.

You build your 'COURAGE MUSCLE' daily, by being courageous in little things. Just do right.