"It is a quiet truth that every summit scaled was once thought insurmountable from the valley below."

"A humble soul understands that the bonds of friendship are the true treasures of existence."

"The echoes of eternity remind us that courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it."

"Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago."

"All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children."

"The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything."

"Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him."

"I'm appalled the word feminism has been denigrated to a place of almost ridicule and I very passionately believe the word needs to be revalued and reintroduced with power and understanding that this is a global picture."