"We are given two of most of our body parts, either opposites or similarities, but not the tongue; except for my wife's which is forked."

“I'm very happy that the New York Times has spoken well of my stuff; who wouldn't be? But it's not a choice I made.”

“It's true what they say - all the good men are married. But it's marriage that makes them good.”

“One can't build little white picket fences to keep nightmares out.”

“this is what I know about courage: You don't have to think about courage to have it. You don't have to feel courageous to be courageous. You don't sit down and say you're going to be courageous. At the moment of action, you don't see it as a courageous act. Courage is the most hidden thing from your eye or mind until after it's done. There's some inner something that tells you what's right. You know you have to do it to survive as a human being. You have no choice.”

Source : Unita Blackwell, JoAnne Prichard Morris (2006). “Barefootin': Life Lessons from the Road to Freedom”, Crown

“Let us roll all our strength, and all Our sweetness, up into one ball: And tear our pleasures with rough strife, Through the iron gates of life. Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run.”

Source : "To His Coy Mistress" l. 41 (1681)

“RUIN, v. To destroy. Specifically, to destroy a maid's belief in the virtue of maids.”

“People don't trust conglomerates; they trust individuals. Network marketing brings trust and the quality of the relationship to the center of the business. And it enables you to expand indefinitely, simply by expanding the number of relationships.”

“I was very young and lived with my grandparents in a villa with white walls in the Calle Ocharan, in Miraflores.”