As my heart begins to return to normal, I look down at -- and feel such an intense rush of love and relief it takes my breath away. "I will never let you put of my sight again, " I promise --

He beat you." And as I spoke the words I felt a terrible anger come together inside me. It wasn't hot and furious, as some of my flashes of temper tend to be. This was different, slow and cold.

A person is an entity of a sort to which the only proper and adequate way to relate is love.

And for me, the real world involves everything: risk, danger, beauty, energy, all we meet with in the real world.

WHAT a person thinks is determined by HOW a person thinks.

I don't have a Bluetooth thing on my ear. That bugs me.

Never get so stuck in being responsible and mindful that you can't let it all go and run off chasing your private dream, if it leads to the shiny worlds, the worlds of beauty.

Doing the right thing daily, compounds over time.

Boredom is a horrible thing.

If anything, we haven't changed much since we [with Venuse Williams] were kids. We really are the same people.

I'm not sure I've learned anything new about life; but I've had to think harder about death and what comes after for other people.