Don't judge a man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.

Life is like a bowl of spaghetti. Every once in a while, you get a meatball.

What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones.

Man needs bread and hyacinths: one to feed the body, and one to feed the soul.

You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.

I love the way that each book -- any book -- is its own journey. You open it, and off you go. You are changed in some way, large or small, by having traveled with those characters.

Read a lot, live your life, and listen and watch, so that your mind fills up with millions of images.

Sometimes you know in your heart you love someone, but you have to go away before your head can figure it out.

You know, maybe that's all anybody wants, is to be useful. And have somebody else notice it.

Then I thought, boy, isn't that just typical? You wait and wait and wait for something, and then when it happens, you feel sad.

A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person.

The pursuit of common dreams only produces common results.

I wish I could say I am a rebel for love in real life. I don't think I am so cool.

Health care probably contributes a lot more to the common wealth than finance.

Unlike any other time in our history, we have to know that staying in school and getting an education is the most important thing you can do.

"Angel" means messenger of God. But angels are nondenominational. The word "God" sometimes implies a Judeo-Christian orientation, yet angels are universal and ancient archetypes.

People should not be imprisoned without having the ability to challenge the legality of that imprisonment.

Culturally, it is commonplace for African women to work.

I live my life with a lot of integrity based on what I want for my life and who I am.

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.