The hidden strength is too deep a secret. But in the end...in the end it is our only ally.

The creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness.

Sometimes the world is so much sicker than the inmates of its institutions.

The horror of the Pit lay in the emergence from it, with the return of her will, her caring, and her feeling of the need for meaning before the return of meaning itself.

There are some people in this world who can emotionally disconnect like a light switch. It’s like a mental defense mechanism.

The last thing Pa and Big Ma wanted to hear was how we made a grand Negro spectacle of ourselves thirty thousand feet up in the air around all these white people.

Fear only what you lost from not sharing

The feeling of deep gratitude is the basis for a balanced life.

A private victory leads to a public victory and a corporate blessing, because God turns His face toward those who will demonstrate character when no one is looking.

If you think of having a family as being loved as a child, cared for - I did not experience that.

I have another explanation [of Brexit]: In its 43 years of EU membership, Britain has never been able to decide whether it wants to fully or only partially belong to the EU.

It ain't whatcha say, it's the way howcha say it.

I'd like to see Paris before I die.

Patterns drawn in ultraviolet might make those ordinary little petals into the exotic peacocks of the botanical world, and yet we cannot appreciate them.