If as a member of a slave nation I could deliver the suppressed classes from their slavery without freeing myself from my own, I would do so today. But it is an impossible task.

Where there is love there is life.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

True beauty lies in purity of the heart.

The future depends on what you do today.

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.

If you don’t find yourself and purpose, the world will be worse for it

Words are wind, and the wind from Manderly's mouth means no more than the wind escaping his bottom.

All things lie dark in possibility.

You cannot stand anywhere in the universe that is outside of yourself.

The best kind of book," said Barnaby, "is a magic book." "Naturally," said John.

By and large, serious fiction was the work of victims who portrayed victims for an audience of victims who, it was oddly assumed, would want to see their lives realistically portrayed.

My choice of a life of adventure may well have been a result of the fact that action raised my blood pressure giving me enough energy to live.

To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.

There is one universal truth: All women, all over the world, want to look beautiful. That is always the theme of my designs.

Willa Cather said that she write best when she stopped trying to write and began simply to remember.