I'll always be here waiting for you, " he said, touching my chest with his fingertips, drawing a shape of a heart.

Dreams do come true. If anyone's proof of that, it's me.

The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole.

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel - and all of them are right.

I was never anorexic, so I was never that skinny. I was never bony-bony. But I remember thinking, I don't want to be this skinny.

Probably the most important piece of advice that I've ever gotten is to develop your mind. I left school very young and I always regretted it.

I am black, so with my writing and my voice, you get that kind of dialect.

I know three people who have got better after a brain tumour. I haven't heard of anyone who's got better from Alzheimer's.

Life's real victories must be shared.

I bounded o'er the mountains, by the sides of the deep rivers, and the lonely streams, wherever nature led.