My own nature hovers between neurotic and paranoid. Ive developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day. – Martha Beck
Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation. – Martha Beck
Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury. – Martha Beck
The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are. – Martha Beck
Im not a prophet I can only use historical reality to come to a view of the future, and my view is that Africa will return to being African and not European. The advent of colonialism was foreign to the country itself, but it will return to what it was before the Europeans arrived. – Wilbur Smith