To write is to resist—to resist forgetting, to resist oppression, to resist the erasure of memory.

I love the process of improving.

Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.

The greatest disability is a bad attitude.

The power elite is composed of men whose positions enable them to transcend the ordinary environments of ordinary men and women; they are in positions to make decisions having major consequences.

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

The whole is different from the sum of its parts.