Every man is the author of his own life.

Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.

There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round.

Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.

It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I think I do.

One should never underestimate the power of books.

If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

It often happens that things are other than what they seem, and you can get yourself into trouble by jumping to conclusions.

Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.

It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.

Trust was accumulated quickly, due primarily to the brute strength of the man's gentleness, his thereness. (p.36)

May you walk on the path of light.

Poetry is an attempt to penetrate the dense reality to find a place where the simplest things look as new as through the eyes of a child.

Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.

Peace comes in situations completely surrendered to the sovereign authority of Christ.

Remarkable only the very best arrangers can get a sound like that from four horns

It is a campaign not for abundance but for austerity. It is a campaign not for more freedom but for less. Strangest of all, it is a campaign not just against other people, but against ourselves.

Create your day in advance by thinking the way you want it to go, and you will create your life intentionally.

Wisdom is obtained by reading the mind of God.

Listen to your patient, he is telling you the diagnosis.