Africa was the most exotic place I could conceive of - the end of the world - and I knew I would go there one day.

I know paradise has many gates, just as hell does. One has to learn to distinguish between them, or one is lost.

People always leave traces. No person is without a shadow.

Justice doesn't only mean that the people who commit crime are punished. It also means that we can never give up seeking the truth.

We don't have time to argue. Nobody has time.

Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening.

Dreams can be of value even if you don’t have an opportunity to turn them into reality.

Every secret we confide in another person can be a burden to them

Life is a flimsy branch over an abyss.

‎Not having time for a person, not being able to sit in silence together with somebody, that's the same as rejecting them, as being scornful about them.

You can have more than one home. You can carry your roots with you, and decide where they grow.

Happiness can only bloom in the garden of peace.

Love- however doomed, had the capacity to attach bouys to the soul.

everyone knows, at some level, that the sharp line between "good weather" and "bad weather" is a fiction, that we need rain as surely as we need sun.

As he flushed, an unexpected realization hit him. This is the Pope's toilet, he thought. I just took a leak in the Pope's toilet. He had to chuckle. The Holy Throne.

The claims of no people, according to established policy and usage, are respected by any nation, until they are presented in a national capacity.

I don't think there's anything quite as dashing as a cop on horseback. To me it's wonderful.

All that God had to do to harden Pharaoh's heart, or to harden your heart, is to withhold His own grace.

There is female-on-male spouse abuse. There are women who hit their husbands. But there must have been something that caused that because otherwise it wouldn't have happened.

Happiness was my choice, and though it is hard-won, I am the only person who can stand in the way of it.