I don't know whether I am different from other people. Perhaps I am. Perhaps no one has a personality, and people are inventing themselves in the context in which they find themselves.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

It is not the small number of big decisions that we take but the large number of small decisions that we take in life, shapes our life.

Life is the greatest gift. As long as I live, I can only be grateful.

You are in training, and therefore your personal taste and opinions are not to be trusted until they are fully and reliably shaped - by me.

Even the best Mindset will become contaminated and eventually blunted in a toxic organisational culture.

Do the truth quietly without display.

Too late. It's hatched.

Only those who walk in holiness experience true joy.

It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.

Minnesota has been so good to me and so pleased that I love Minnesota.

Through selfless work, love of God grows in heart.