I am alone here in New York, no longer a we.

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

The greatest gift is a passion for reading.

Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

The famous carry about with them a great weight of patriarchal baggage-the footnotes of their lives.

The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy.

Sometimes one has the feeling of an almost supernatural character to the shifts and changes in our national mood. They appear beyond the prose of cause and effect.

Self-love is an idolatry. Self-hatred is a tragedy.

When you travel your first discovery is that you do not exist.

Learn, Teach n be Innovative

Atheists determine there is no God based on their own intellect. I've determined there is a God based on His intellect.

When you do find humor in trying times, one of the first and most important changes you experience is that you see your perplexing problems in a new way - you suddenly have a new perspective on them.

I feel that the BBC World Service is not as versatile as it used to be - or perhaps I'm not listening at the right times.

It's never my intent to be controversial but I don't shy away from it.

If you must get in trouble, do it at the Chateau Marmont.

The work of a mother is hard, too often unheralded work. Please know that it is worth it then, now, and forever.

I do believe that part of us ending racism is us seeing each other's humanity and learning to love each other, even if we look different or worship differently or live differently.

It's better not to see than to see wrongly.

I have to tell you, every day is a roller coaster.