Like snowflakes the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action.

Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia Our time is forever now.

Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave - and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way.

Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action, our problems are most complex and, too often, silently borne.

writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind.

We think of poverty as a condition simply meaning a lack of funds, no money, but when one sees fifth, sixth, and seventh generation poor, it is clear that poverty is as complicated as high finance.

The Black writer explains pain to those who inflict it.

Some feminists feel that a woman should never be wrong. We have a right to be wrong.

Truth is simply whatever you can bring yourself to believe.

I think women need kindness more than love. When one human being is kind to another, it's a very deep matter.

Some truth has no nourishment in it.

When you look in the mirror, do you look at yourself or for yourself?

a good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving" Taoist dictum quoted by Sam Miller

If you don't ask, you don't get.

We are a kind of posterity in respect to them.

The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.

I just can't stop myself; I'm addicted to making you money. I should be spending all day in a country club or never getting out of my pajamas like Hugh Hefner.

I exhort all, who reverence the Word of the Lord, to read it, and diligently imprint it on their memory.

The way of even the most jusitifiable revolution is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds.

A fluent writer always seems more talented than he is. To write well, one needs a natural felicity and an acquired difficulty.

Thus have I, Wall, my part discharged so; And, being done, thus Wall away doth go.