I do hope that young men and women will start to think for themselves and start to take responsibility for their own thoughts.

If I'm here, I'll be trying to be a better human being, a better writer, a better friend and a better beloved.

You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

The intensity with which young people live demands that they "blank out" as often as possible.

I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I'm a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself - all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.

Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.

I had to trust life and believe that life loved the person who dared to live it.