I feel the healinghands of Godtouch my heartand kiss my soul.

Memory is a sly devil that pretends to wear the cloak of truth, but deceives us both in our youth and our age.

Sometimes thatwhich we fearstrengthens ourspirit and givesus a splashof hope.

Sometimes memory is the only gift we give ourselves and the only hope we have of finding our way home.

Hope is a gift. Use it wisely.

We fear what we most desire.

May your dreams be larger than mountains and may you have the courage to scale their summits.

May your dreams be gifts from the gods and may you open them with excitement and pleasure.

Nothing stays the same and nothing changes. What is old today will be new tomorrow. What is new today will be forgotten tomorrow.

One must give himself completely to his art and not hold back. Throw caution to the wind. Embrace the muse. Make love to your art.

How little we understandof the gifts we have been givenor the shape of the pathwe took to reach our salvation.

Educate every child to have a good head, good heart and kind spirit.

The future is completely open and so is the past. And we are writing them right now. Making a different past or future is only up to us now.

It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care.

Realism...has no more to do with reality than anything else.

Being a good writer may result in your being nicer to more people, having a bigger positive impact.

Sure, give me an adventure and I'll ride it.

All men in their hearts, I say, bear witness to these truths; they need only to be made to understand it.

[James] Baldwin "was one of greatest intellectuals of his time. He was an important voice, period, not an important black voice."

It can be a bit of a hindrance when you walk into a restaurant for a quiet meal and one or two launch into 'psycho, psycho'!

. . . every age thinks it is perfect, especially in religion.