The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.

Anger is like fire. It burns all clean.

I've never had a dislike for men. I've been badly treated by some. But I've been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!

If it is true that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, isn't it also true a society is only as healthy as its sickest citizen and only as wealthy as its most deprived?

It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.