Poverty didn't necessarily engender an envy of wealth; sometimes it might beget a passion for decency.

I don't write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know.

People come and go in life, but they never leave your dreams. Once they're in your subconscious, they are immortal.

Prayer as focus is not a way of limiting what can be seen; it is a habit of attention brought to bear on all that is.

We only store in memory images of value. To write about one's life is to live it twice, and the second time is both spiritual and historical.

Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste.

Memory is, first, a captivating mystery.

Fundamentally, [prayer] is a position, a placement of oneself.

No memoirists writes for long without experiencing an unsettling disbelief about the reliability of memory, a hunch that memory is not, after all, just memory.

True memoir is written, like all literature, in an attempt to find not only a self but a world

Writing is so hard. And then, sometimes, it is so bewilderingly easy.

All you need to find a strong, loving man is the knowledge and understanding of the power you have as a woman.

I rocketed a commanding finger to the heavens and it rained stardust upon our young heads.

Let us look around with a compassionate heart to feel and see the deepest joy of life.

Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There's nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in the ring.

It was not the apple on the tree but the pair on the ground that caused the trouble in the garden of Eden.

The ball was coming down like a butterfly with sore feet.

I scavenged for sensation, sought myself in the rewards of being out there, across the Border.

Where were you then? Who else was there? Saying what? Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The chief source of man's inhumanity to man seems to be the tribal limits of his sense of obligation to other men.

Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.