The area where we are the greatest is the area in which we inspire, encourage and connect with another human being.

One must learn to care for oneself first, so that one can then dare to care for someone else.

Being free is being able to accept people for what they are, and not try to understand all they are or be what they are.

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

This is what I am learning, at 82 years old: the main thing is to be in love with the search for truth.

Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.

There is something more - the spirit, or the soul. I think that that quality encourages our courtesy and care and our minds. And mercy, and identity.