I didn't know how to tell him that I hadn't lost the instinct to survive and yet at the same time I didn't feel much need for self-preservation, that somehow there was a distinction between the two.

Emma, Emma, Emma, " I said, wishing I could somehow teach her to take the smaller blows of life in her stride.

I understand once again that the greatness of God always reveals itself in the simple things.

Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the practical point of what He actually does do.

For me it was a lot harder to come to terms with the death of my grandfather than it was to come to terms with what's happened to the former Yugoslavia.

There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.

Life is too short to worry about anything. You had better enjoy it because the next day promises nothing.

You just have to keep going to find that thing that lets you in the door. Sometimes in life when that day comes and you're given the key, you throw it away.

Eternity: The interval between the time when a woman discovers that a man is in love with her and the time when he finds it out himself and tells her about it.

Haitians don't like to say they are hungry because we are proud.

I can't drink whiskey like I used to back then, that's for sure.

And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable.