The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.

We are all either wheels or connectors. Whichever we are we must find truth and balance, which is a bicycle. Trust and balance are also essential to true love.

Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.

America may not be the best nation on earth, but it has conceived loftier ideals and dreamed higher dreams than any other nation. America is a heterogeneous nation of many different people of different races, religions, and creeds. Should this experiment go forth and prosper, we will have offered humans a new way to look at life; should it fail, we will simply go the way of all failed civilizations.

Libraries...house our dreams.

Show me someone not full of herself and I'll show you a hungry person.

You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.