"all deaths are one's own."

“It's really an optimistic show. I think most of the people in this country are optimistic, too.”

“The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.”

“Swedes are a really humble and shy people in many ways, but I think it's pretty much the same as in the U.S. Little girls want to take photographs with me at lunch.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“Mathematics, in the common lay view, is a static discipline based on formulas...But outside the public view, mathematics continues to grow at a rapid rate...the guid to this growth is not calculation and formulas, but an open ended search for pattern.”

“People are self-centered to a nauseous degree. They will keep on about themselves while I'm explaining me.”

“Books are the ultimate way for writers to reach immortality.”

“I do not believe that hating any man solves the problem of race or any other problem. ... I firmly believe that hatred, like anger, works on the physical glandular system as well as on the moral fiber of our nation, and in doing so, can bring no positive good.”

Source : Margaret Walker, Maryemma Graham (1990). “How I Wrote Jubilee and Other Essays on Life and Literature”, p.23, Feminist Press at CUNY

“All men are brothered in Jesus Christ.”