Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.

…on some occasions, women, like dreams, go by contraries.

God has make life simple for us but the choices we do at the end of each day, are the ones that make our lives complicated.

I give the truths of to-morrow.""I prefer the mistakes of today.

I have a weird thing - if I can't see where all the walls in my house are, I get a little bit freaked out. I think New York has Stockholm Syndrome'd my sense of space and what a house should be.

We didn’t have Facebook in my day, we had a phone book but you wouldn’t waste an afternoon on it

It's rare when I feel like I can extract a lyrical message out of combining two things together.

I prefer to give a dollar to a thousand people.

If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the second novel that doesn't match up.

Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do - or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so.

It is precisely because we resist the darkness in ourselves that we miss the depths of the loveliness, beauty, brilliance, creativity, and joy that lie at our core.