I’m grateful for being here, for being able to think, for being able to see, for being able to taste, for appreciating love – for knowing that it exists in a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, and yet love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists.

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

In all the institutions I try to be present and accountable for all I do and leave undone. I know that eventually I shall have to be present and accountable n the presence of God. I do not wish to be found wanting.

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 will write on the pages of history what I want them to say. I will be myself. I will speak my own name.

No one has ever become poor from giving.

You may not remember what a person said to you, you may not remember what a person did to you, but you will never forget how a person made you feel!