Be yourself!’ said Gro. ‘No one will hear any of you otherwise, still less trust you. That’s the most important thing of all. If you’re not yourself you just can’t sustain it in the long term.

Sometimes is not in the battle field where truth and courage only shows. You can win in any place with the help of your courage.

Look to the East where up the lucid sky The morning climbs! The day shall yet be fair.

The transformative power of love is not fully embraced in our society because we often wrongly believe that torment and anguish are our ‘natural’ condition.

We are all looking for something of extraordinary importance whose nature we have forgotten; I am writing the memoirs of a man who has lost his memory.

Community colleges are certainly one of America's best-kept secrets.

Silk and Shadows is something else. Like brilliant. It got under my skin as very, very few books have. It's still under my skin. Mikhal was haunting.

One must learn an inner solitude, where or with whomsoever he may be. He must learn to penetrate things and find God there, to get a strong impression of God firmly fixed on his mind.

Most marriages can survive 'better or worse'. The tester is all the years of 'exactly the same'.

Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing.

You lack the season of all natures, sleep.