Though my father was poor and had nothing, the Torah, the poetry of prophets, was his daily bread.

When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts.

As one of the dumb, voiceless ones I speak. One of the millions of immigrants beating, beating out their hearts at your gates for a breath of understanding.

Like all people who have nothing, I lived on dreams.

In America, money takes the place of God.

A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.

Poor people who had escaped from poverty as I had, feared it, hated it and fled from it all their lives. Those born rich could afford to be touched by it.

The power that makes grass grow, fruit ripen, and guides the bird in flight is in us all.

I'm one of the millions of immigrant children, children of loneliness, wandering between worlds that are at once too old and too new to live in.

The only compensation for the artist is the chance to feed hungry hearts.

I too was frightened the first time I felt I hated my father. I felt like a criminal. But could I help it what was inside of me? I had to feel what I felt even if it killed me.

That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics.

I was a bridesmaid at a wedding in one picture.

What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.

Men are never brave, are they?

I've always been lucky with blood pressure. I've always had very good blood pressure.

The worst is when men try too hard, because it's not very masculine. Your outfit has to look like 'Oh, I just grabbed that.' Not too calculated. Jeans, a t-shirt: the simpler the better.

If you can't be funny, be interesting.

The endless newsreel clips of nuclear explosions that we saw on TV in the 1960s (were) a powerful incitement to the psychotic imagination, sanctioning *everything*.

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.

The greatest geniuses sometimes accomplish more when they work less.