As she stood in the darkened room and watched my sister and father, I knew one of things that heaven meant. I had a choice, and it was not to divide my family in my heart.

How to Commit the Perfect Murder" was an old game in heaven. I always chose the icicle: the weapon melts away.

You save yourself or you remain unsaved.

I stared at her black hair. It was shiny like the promises in magazines.

Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.

Your first kiss is destiny knocking.

You could not be filled with hate and be beautiful. Like any other girl, I wanted to be beautiful. But I was filled with hate.

I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.

I would like to tell you that I am, and you will one day be, forever safe.

She liked to imagine that when she passed the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was.

Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living.

A lie can only make a temporary sense. The truth is permanent and lasts forever.

Time wasted is a theft from God.

The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.

I should like to take the wind and water and sand as a motif and work with them, but it has to be simplified in most cases to colour and force lines, just as music has done with sound.

Our planet is changing in ways that will have profound impacts on all of humankind.

Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.

It isn't important what you do, it is the attitude with which you proceed through the world that matters.

I don't walk around like I'm a movie star because I don't think of myself as a movie star. People usually don't even notice me.

Everybody shall be accepted no matter what they stand for, you are not always going to agree on their faith.

Gambling operates under the premise that greed can be satisfied by luck.