You never get over the fear of writing.
The music was my friend, my lover, my family.
A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but a woman called by a devaluing name will only be weakened by the misnomer.
I’m a spring leaf trembling in anticipation.
If our children are to approve of themselves, they must see that we approve of ourselves.
I do not think of myself as unusually creative. I think we all come from the creator, each human being streaming with the glory. So each one of us is creative.
Being physically close to extreme power causes one to experience a giddiness, an intoxication.
You may not get what you paid for, but you will pay for what you get.
All God’s children need traveling shoes.
I certainly do not adore the writer’s discipline. I have lost lovers, endangered friendships, and blundered into eccentricity, impelled by a concentration which usually is to be found only in the minds of people about to be executed in the next half hour.
As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to do some good.
But from a distance. I would have left you whole and wholly for the delectation of those who wanted more and cared less.
The Holy Spirit upon my left leads my feet without ceasing into the camp of the righteous and into the tents of the free.
When I was asked to do something good, I often say yes, I’ll try, yes, I’ll do my best. And part of that is believing, if God loves me, if God made everything from leaves to seals and oak trees, then what is it I can’t do?
It’s a wonderful thing to know that there is something to know there is something greater than I am, and that is God itself.
There is no place where God is not.
If men are God’s gift to women, then God must really love gag gifts.
Laugh and dare to try to love somebody, starting with yourself. You must love yourself first, of course, and you must protect yourself so that nobody overrides you, overrules you, or steps on you. Just say, ‘Just a minute. I’m worth everything, dear.’
Hope is born again in the faces of children.
One must learn to care for oneself first, so that one can then dare to care for someone else.