“I’m not worried about dying. I consult with God, my maker. And I don’t have a lot of problems to work out. I’m pretty squared anyway.”

Seems like we always spend the best part of our time just saying goodbye.

I’ve been through it all, baby, I’m mother courage.

When I’m not with the one I love, I love the one I’m with.

You are who you are. All you can do in this world is help others to be who they are and better themselves.

I don’t entirely approve of some of the things I have done, or am, or have been. But I’m me. God knows, I’m me.

If it is not to make the world better what is money for?

The ups and downs, the problems and stress, along with all the happiness, have given me optimism and hope because I am living proof of survival.

I’ve always sung in the shower. Now I make the stage a mental shower in order not to get too uptight and enjoy it.

I hate the idea of always having to interpret other people’s ideas and thoughts and words, because I’m very independent and, I guess, a free thinker.

I’m not like anyone. I’m me.

I’m not afraid. Life is just such an adventure to me.

I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I’m not afraid to look behind them.

It’s all about hope, kindness and a connection with one another.

The public library is more than a repository of books. It’s a mysterious, wondrous place with the power to change lives.

I don’t like my voice. I don’t like the way I look. I don’t like the way I move. I don’t like the way I act. I mean, period. So, you know, I don’t like myself.

It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

I spent my whole life helping my mother carry around her psychic trunks like a bitter bellhop. So a great load was lifted when she died, and my life was much easier.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

If you’re going to be a writer you have to be one of the great ones. After all, there are better ways to starve to death.

It is better for me to die in behalf of Jesus Christ, than to reign over all the ends of the earth.

When Jesus died on the cross and cried out, ‘It is finished!’ He not only died for our sins, but for our diseases too.

Death: the only true emotion felt in an apathetic world.

There are those who believe justice and dignity are reserved only for some people. Young men have died in police custody, and the growing heel of poverty has worn down harder on children of color…We must fight back.

The disciples obey because that’s what people do when someone rises from the dead and gives instructions.