Focus on the systematic process and the things you have control.

May I see the beauty in others without denigrating my own.

She didn't want to be the human race. It sounded too big a responsibility.

He who knows does not feel wonder. It could not be said that God experiences wonder, for God knows in the most absolute and perfect way.

We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move.

I believe that the time to start thinking about your legacy is not at the end but at the beginning, because as I said, that's when you're able to do something about it.

You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.

(Socrates) said there were only two possibilities. Either the soul is immortal or, after death, things would be again as blank as they were before we were born.

My novels are high concept. I guess big ideas interest me more than, say, the minutiae of domestic life.

I've often said that the seventh paramita should be a sense of humor, so we don't take ourselves too seriously.

Every old goalkeeper loses a step at some point, but you can gain that back through experience.