When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.

My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

If we are honest and fair, then we are known by that. If we are not, alas, we are known by that as well. What we want to do is do right, but you have to say it, you have to show it, and not stop.

Still, when it looked like the sun wasn't going to shine anymore, God put a rainbow in the clouds.

Each of us has a responsibility for being alive: one responsibility to creation, of which we are a part, another to the creator a debt we repay by trying to extend our areas of comprehension.

The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

We are only as blind as we want to be.