"When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand, nor can your hand pick up anything."

"The family is our refuge and our springboard; nourished on it, we can advance to new horizons. In every conceivable m…"

"Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of litt…"

"Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you."

"In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it."

"Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always encourage such people, but I also explain that there’s…"

"I knew I wanted to write. I had dreamed about it for years. I wasn’t going to be one of those people who die wonderin…"

"Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help."

"You don't spend twenty years of your life in the service and not have a warm, nostalgic feeling left in you … It's a …"

"Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure, four days upriver from the coast of The Gambia, West Africa, …"