personal story quotes

For 20 years, Simon & Schuster asked me, ‚Why don’t you write your autobiography?‘

I was a thug.

There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools and she was bused to school every day. That little girl was me.

When we tell the story of our own conversion, I would have it done with great sorrow, remembering what we used to be, and with great joy and gratitude, remembering how little we deserve these things.

We lived in a tall, narrow Victorian house, which my parents had bought very cheaply during the war, when everyone thought London was going to be bombed flat. In fact, a V-2 rocket landed a few houses away from ours. I was away with my mother and sister at the time, but my father was in the house.

I’ve got a very interesting background.