I hope to use dialogue and culture as a means of bringing people of various cultures together, and using that as a way to resolve conflict.

I think risk-taking is a great adventure. And life should be full of adventures.

In the past, there's always been one leader that has led the pack to development of the music.

Each human being exists because there's something they have to offer for the evolution of the universe that only they can fulfill.

My family is from a tiny town in Alabama. So all I wanted to do was get out of this town.

Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our mother or father would sit down beside us in the semi-dark and read from a book of fairy tales.

If I meet a wise person, I think, 'Yes, tell me more about parenting, about marriage, about how to stay in love. Tell me more about how to be a decent person living in a world that's filled with chaos.'

After the war, when my husband came home, we had two more children, and domesticity for a while prevailed combined with beginning the work I had always wanted to do, which was writing a book.