If men are God's gift to women, then God must really love gag gifts.

There's racism and sexism and ageism and all sorts of idiocies. But bad news is not news. We've had bad news as a species for a long time. We've had slavery and human sacrifice and the holocaust and brutalities of such measure.

We are not our brother’s keeper we are our brother and we are our sister. We must look past complexion and see community.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

I am not competing with anyone other than myself. I want to be excellent at whatever I do.

It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.

Never, never let a person know you're frightened. And a group of them ... absolutely never. Fear brings out the worst in everybody.