I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway.

I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer - its dust and lowering skies.

If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.

There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism.

There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.

The secret of success is being persistent and having a definite purpose.

Refuse to be isolated. Your accomplishments are patronized by people who would get interest in them. When you don’t get connected, how will you get to know those people?

True biblical love is a selfless commitment of one’s body, soul, and spirit to the betterment of the other person.

She closed her eyes. Said the four most comforting words she knew: "Once upon a time." An incantation.

treasure up these words in thy heart. Be faithful and diligent in keeping the commandments of God and I will encircle thee in the arms of my love.

We will be advancing beyond just even odds.” – Janett Lee Wawrzyniak, Secret Terror in Wavelengths – Wave Links: Inter-Dimensional

Keep your sales pipeline full by prospecting continuosly.Always have more people to see than you have time to see them .

It is not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful.

Competing in gymnastics is the greatest reminder of being alive as a human being.