I'm good at reading people.

The point is not to pay back kindness but to pass it on.

Each of us will have to make the choices that allow us to be the largest versions of ourselves.

It's like my whole world is coming undone, but when I write, my pencil is a needle and thread, and I'm stitching the scraps back together.

A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart.

I write to find out what I am thinking. I write to find out who I am. I write to understand things.

A book does not discriminate against any reader. All are welcome at the table of literature.

Don't plan it all. Let life surprise you a little.

Everyone needs a strong sense of self. It is our base of operations for everything that we do in life.

I admit that for me love goes deeper than the struggle, or maybe what I mean is, love is the deeper struggle.

Every writer can tell you that a book is only truly alive when it finds passionate readers who bring it alive in their imaginations.

I died for a short while the first time we met

Thenceforth they thought that, rationally concluded, doubt could become an instrument of knowledge.

Blessed the one who has become a good spiritual net and caught many for the good Lord, such a one will greatly praised by the Lord.

The teacher "teaches" and the students "sit and listen" or learn passively.

If it is man's privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter - dependent.

Increasing meaning and joy on the planet is the ultimate goal because within that space all evil is cast out.

You measure yourself by the people who measure themselves by you.

Jazz is an idea that is more powerful than the details of its history.

If you can connect people, you can create the future.

The place one's in, though, doesn't make any contribution to peace of mind: it's the spirit that makes everything agreeable to oneself.