Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunners of pleasure.

Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.

Listen with ears of tolerance! See through the eyes of compassion! Speak with the language of love

I LOVE my friends neither with my heart nor with my mind. Just in case... HEART might stop. MIND can forget. I Love them with my Soul. SOUL never stops or forgets.

Whenever you are alone, remind yourself that God has sent everyone else away so that there is only you and Him.

Find the sweetness in your own heart, then you may find the sweetness in every heart.

Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

When the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

It's your road & yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you

Last night I begged the Wise One to tell me the secret of the world. Gently, gently, he whispered, "Be quiet, the secret cannot be spoken, It is wrapped in silence."

...there are so many books left to read. For that reason alone it is worth going on living. Books make me happy, the help me escape from reality.

I think 'The Color Purple' is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe.

What Ireland needs now above all else is peace.

I get a sentence, an idea, an image, and I start. I don't know anything beyond it. I follow it.

I'm not great about putting on make-up, I look like a wreck half the time.

I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard.

Be kind to thy sister. Not many may know the depths of true sisterly love.

I was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland and it is still home to me. My writing has taken me all over the world, but this is the place I come back to and the place where I find it easiest to write.

I was bookish and dorky in high school, so the best part of this movie was getting to be on the other side.

I don't like seeing the stuff that's not polished. It's harder for me to step away from it and watch that.