Bach takes you to a very quiet place within yourself, to the inner core, a place where you are calm and at peace.

Great teams do not hold back with one another. They are unafraid to air their dirty laundry. They admit their mistakes, their weaknesses, and their concerns without fear of reprisal.

[Multitudes] have never been born again. They will go into eternity lost—while thinking they are saved because they belong to the church, or were baptized.

Find what is beautiful in a person and appreciate it. Ignore what is wrong. Everyone has divine beauty but underneath can be a hidden diabolical ego.

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.

I do think vajazzles need to stop. The whole thing of glitter-ising your cell phone and your purse and your body needs to stop.

The wise man tests before he talks. The critic but follows the fad of a cynical and apathetic age.

The manufacture of wax candles was another important branch of business in the nunnery.

A good thing never ends.

But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.