'Scar Tissue' is the only book I've ever written when I've felt completely toxic, ill.

People who have a sense of self-efficacy bounce back from failure; they approach things in terms of how to handle them rather than worrying about what can go wrong.

Being cut doesn't mean nothing. You get cut for saying the wrong thing. You get cut for having a couple of bad fights. It happens.

While we yearn for peace, we live in a world burdened with hunger, pain, anguish, loneliness, sickness, and sorrow.

Humour is used in struggle and solving difficult things, and I relish that tradition.

her unwavering confidence in an arm which she believed to be stronger than all others combined could have raised from her sinking spirit.

And a'n't, I a woman? I have borne thirteen chilern, and seen 'em mos' all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And a'n't I a woman?

If a little flower could speak, it seems to me that it would tell us quite simply all that God has done for it, without hiding any of its gifts. It would not, under the pretext of humility, say that it was not pretty, or that it had not a sweet scent, that the sun had withered its petals,or the storm bruised its stem, if it knew that such were not the case.

Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.

The truth is, we pamper little griefs into great ones, and bear great ones as well as we can.

Whose life testifies to the truth that there is no shame in being oppressed: Those who should be ashamed are they who oppress others.

The truth of the matter is that all we have to do is live long enough and we will suffer.