As a young girl I was told the truth. I knew about death. I was afraid to lose but not afraid to die.

If we are put here on this earth for our learning, then it's safe to say that life is a school and there are going to be tests.

There is comfort, even among strangers, when people find something they are equally passionate about.

You take all the fun out of life for me, Nik. You know that?" Aiden- Blood Hunger (Deathless Night Series #1)

Memories rob us of the present.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

So it's probably eighty percent luck and twenty percent skill.

Do not follow after the past; do not go forward to meet the future. Instead, just rest the mind naturally in the present awareness.

If I look back I am lost.

I think - particularly in terms of the destiny of Africans in North America - our destiny has also been shaped indelibly by global alliances.

We sit here, very different each from the other, until the passion arrives to give us our equality, to make us part of the play, to make the play part of us.

Though shyness per se was unacceptable, reserve was a mark of good breeding.