Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.

A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.

Some people who think they are in unhappy marriages are just in unhappy bodies.

A person who has no secrets is a liar. We always fold ourselves away from others just enough to preserve a secret or two, something that we cannot share without destroying our inner landscape.

People always tell me either A. you love him. B. you hate him. My usual answer? C. All of the above.

I am not a perfect friend, and it is impossible not to rebuff or be rebuffed if you move about the world.

I've told the same story twelve different ways, but I think that's just part of what writers do. Once may not be enough.

What other people think of me is not really my major concern in life. What other people think of what I write is another matter.

I have two writer daughters, and a psychoanalyst daughter, and a lawyer daughter, and they wish we didn't write, I'm sure, but we write. If we were a painting family, we would paint.

You really can't say things that upset someone in print and expect them to be nice and leave you their money. That's just not reasonable.

Reader, you forget that economics precedes religion; worship grew out of eating, not the other way around.

Faith is the bridge from the spiritual realm into the physical realm.

The heavenly Father shall never failed to fulfilled His word.

There are sores which slowly erode the mind in solitude like a kind of canker.

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be one.

In my country, at that time, being a champion of chess was like being a King. At that time I was a King and when you are King you feel a lot of responsibility, but there is nobody there to help you.

Men who use terrorism as a means to power, rule by terror once they are in power.

Black culture is very difficult to explain to people who don't have any direct contact with it.

No matter who or what we are, God restores us to right standing with Himself only by means of the death of Jesus Christ.

There is no one left, none but all of us.

In a region with a growing population, if you're doing nothing, you're losing ground.