As A Child I Wanted To Be

The Beast Is The Monster That Destroys Your Dream

People Told Me To Give Up Trying To Be Special And Settle Down To A Regular Life. There Ain't Nothing Wrong With A Regular Life, And That's The Lord's Truth...but It Wasn't For Me, Because I Wanted To Be Something Special. I Knew How Easy It Was For A Dream To Die. I Seen That All Around Me. You Could Let It Die By Just Looking The Other Way.

It Is This Language Of Values Which I Hope To Bring To My Books. . . . I Want To Bring Values To Those Who Have Not Been Valued, And I Want To Etch Those Values In Terms Of The Ideal. Young People Need Ideals Which Identify Them, And Their Lives, As Central . . . Guideposts Which Tell Them What They Can Be, Should Be, And Indeed Are.

That's What's Wrong With Women. They Want You To Wait For Them Until They Get Ready And Then They Don't Even Tell You How They Feel.

America Believes What's Good For Us Is Good For The World. It's Very Difficult To Understand That That's Not Necessarily True.