It's sort of a law of the art world: The stuff that grows in importance is only the stuff you bought because it wowed you.

For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, 'Here I am, read me.' Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.

The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.