To create today is to create dangerously. Any publication is an act, and that act exposes one to the passions of an age that forgives nothing.

It is a great deal to fight while despising war, to accept losing everything while still preferring happiness, to face destruction while cherishing the idea of a higher civilization.

In raining bullets on those silent faces, already turned away from this world, you think you are disfiguring the face of our truth.

For all those landscapes, those flowers and those plowed fields, the oldest of lands, show you every spring that there are things you cannot choke in blood.

And despite the clamors and the violence, we tried to preserve in our hearts the memory of a happy sea, of a remembered hill, the smile of a beloved face.

You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down.

To be happy means to be free not from pain or fear but from care or anxiety.

The fact that every part of this ship was built by the low bidder.

To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward.

Humility has tremendous power. Think of Gandhi. That was humility in action. He changed the shape of an entire nation.

I find it weird when [model] agents say, 'You're the only black girl booked for the show. Isn't it great?' Why is it great?

I used to follow trends and try to do exactly what I saw in the magazines, but I'm not a Victoria's Secret model who can wear anything.

Sometimes, when you want to be in a place so badly, you'll do anything.

It has been said that sometimes we need a story more than food in order to live. p 374

Friendship is the union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue