Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.

We come to beginnings only at the end.

Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities.

Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives.

You make mistakes, mistakes don't make you

The truth is usually left for us to hunt and gather independently, if we are so inclined.

Carry out your literary dream, no matter how unlikely it may seem...

Rise like the hero you were born to be, or die the slave you think you are.

In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.

People don't get angry about the half a million dead Iraqis from the sanctions.

It was the straying that found the path direct.

If I was a nightingale I would sing like a nightingale; if a swan, like a swan. But since I am a rational creature my role is to praise God.

If we had the right words, if we had the language, we would need no weapons.

White exists on the periphery of life. Bleached bones connect us to death, but the white of milk and eggs, for example, speaks to us of life.