A writer's role was never just to tell stories, but to create a world to encompass and share with others.

Sometimes... Reason and Love are met with a violent ignorance that even what's right gets lost. Our heart bleeds, but when does the blood shed end and the healing begin?

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.' But eating too many, is quite enough-plenty. And you'll have to go see the good doc anyway.

It doesn't matter where your journey begins, so long as you begin it...

When all is said and done all anyone has left is their integrity at their core... Don't give that away too.

Be the Light you seek so desperately in your life and chase away that darkness.

We must be careful more than ever what we let our hearts believe in.

Our tragedy is their beauty. Our pain is their art. The beatific bereavement that is our life captured on a canvas for all the world to see.

It’s a shame how much artists have to bleed for people to enjoy their work.

It's a dangerous thing when you have love without faith and trust... No one wants to feel unsure when they give their heart away.

To be calm and compassionate you need courage and conviction.

The self is a repeatedly reconstructed biological state.

I will one day accept death with gratitude if I meet it having lived a life that became truly my own.

The weakness of so many modern Christians is that they feel too much at home in the world

Partnership is the way. Dictatorial win-lose is so old-school.

The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites.

There aren't many people in our history who have so completely surrendered themselves to a mission that they would give up their lives for it.

I feel as though I'm not breathing when I'm out of his presence. He's the oxygen in my air, the sun in my universe, the staff of my life. —Jane Gardiner

We have all felt those emotions in these last few days. So what I say to you now, as your queen and as a grandmother, I say from my heart.

Pedestrians never seem to realize that they are a threat to the safety of cars.

The only thrill worthwhile is the one that comes from making something out of yourself.