Believe people when they tell you who they are. They know themselves better than you. - Maya Angelou

People whose history and future were threatened each day by extinction considered that it was only by divine intervention that they were able to live at all. I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.

I found it hard to think of leaving my books. They had been my elevators out of the midden, and to whom could I entrust such close friends?

Yet it is only love which sets us free.