But Nita had always seen having a child as selfish. Why bring another soul into this world, she'd say, when there are so many out there that need our help?

Do you think that a billion people knowing your face makes you special?It doesn't.

Segregation is a word of the past. Unity is the key to a peaceful future.

How right it is to love flowers and the greenery of pines and ivy and hawthorn hedges

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

The first session I did with the Stones was an accident. I just happened to be wandering down the hallway of the same studio.

I don't think you can have pain and soul-searching doing the right thing for your child.

She was suddenly aware of him in a way she hadn't been before. Hayward was good-looking in a sweet and wholesome way.

I really enjoy doing both, but I didn't write nonfiction until 1994.

You learn so much from your parents. We grew up in a home where we were definitely taught to be confident. I definitely give me parents a lot of credit.

But now, like a fallen sparrow On a golden chain, I'm forever bound in shadow, A prisoner to my pain.

In the mind engaged in struggling with hardship, one always finds something delightful. The sorrow of disappointment arises in the complacency of satisfaction.