Being physically close to extreme power causes one to experience a giddiness, an intoxication.

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.

We agreed that great men and women should be forced to live as long as possible. The reverence they enjoyed was a life sentence, which they could neither revoke nor modify.

I want to thank you, Lord, for life and all that's in it. Thank you for the day and for the hour, and the minute.

I know why the caged bird sings.

Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm, when we look at each other we must say, I understand. I understand how you feel because I have been there myself. We must support each other and empathize with each other because each of us is more alike than we are unalike.