Every so often something shatters like ice and we are in the river of our existence. We are aware.

What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.

Things which do not grow and change are dead things.

When women age into their power, no wind can upset them, no hand turn aside their knowledge, no fact can deflect their point of view.

We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.

Our songs travel the earth. We sing to one another. Not a single note is ever lost and no song is original. They all come from the same place and go back to a time when only the stones howled.

You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.

some people meet the way the sky meets the earth, inevitably, and there is no stopping or holding back their love. It exists in a finished world, beyond the reach of common sense.

Of course, English is a very powerful language, a colonizer's language and a gift to a writer. English has destroyed and sucked up the languages of other cultures - its cruelty is its vitality.

Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.

Life and light made up the interior, the realm of daytime. The exterior was darkness and night.

The real troubles with living is that living is so banal.

For church buildings not to be enough is to build and equip church members to send them out

You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity.

India's IP policy reflects the confusion in the minds of the policymakers .

My mom is this liberal, feminist, Mormon powerhouse. I just love her to death.

Businessmen they drink my wine, come and taste my herb.

I've been a lucky guy.

God loves you just because He loves you.

I want my books to sell, to be read. I'm not interested in being obscure.