We make a mistake in thinking we own pets - the animals open their lives up and make us a part of them.

I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.

If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books. The book needs you.

Patience, he thought. So much of this was patience - waiting, and thinking and doing things right. So much of all this, so much of all living was patience and thinking.

Do what you can as you can. Trouble, problems, will come no matter what you do , and you must respond as they come.

A book is a friend. You can never have too many.

I tried to contain myself... but I escaped!

Read like a wolf eats and write every day. Every. Single. Day.

Books make me feel safe. Books make me feel normal.

Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination--except that it was all reality.

The essence of war is insanity. Destruction, death, women widowed, children orphaned, lands plundered, property destroyed, lives decimated - it's all bad.

The Hot Air Balloon CharmLife Can Be Filled with Adventure If You Let Yourself Soar

And why love things you were destined to lose? Why let yourself feel things if the feelings were doomed to die?

I wanted to tell you that the man who is your father, the man who gave you life, has found a woman who is in heaven when she's in his arms.

Courage is the first of human qualities, because it is the quality that guarantees all the others. - Winston Churchill

I hate high heels, more than anything.

A setback is nothing but a setup for a comeback.

Every time you make a choice that expresses respect for life, you bring a little more love in your body, into your family, into our society, and into a world that is calling out for this blessing.

It would be a contradiction in terms if the oppressors not only defended but actually implemented a liberating education.

Basketball is sharing.

America is deeply rooted in Negro culture: its colloquialisms; its humor; its music.