Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift.

If you do not like anything, alter it. If you can not change it, adjust your mindset. Will not complain.

I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people.

Tragedy, no matter how sad, becomes boring to those not caught in its addictive caress.

A societies needs determines their ethics

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

The difference between charity and philanthropy is the distance of the soul... To be philanthropic is to give something, to be charitable is to give one's own heart.