“To give voice to the questions--- even in my own head--- would have been to give them power, to confirm the presence of doubt, to risk eventual downfall.”
“In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own; and to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.”
“The schemers in this world eventually plot nothing but their own downfall.”
“I told them," he said in a clear, carrying voice, "that they should not give someone as old and powerful as I a daughter to love. That it would end badly.”
“In the long run we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.”
“I had never realized how much I needed the attention of others to confirm my own presence.”