I suppose one gets to know men quickest by the things they take for granted.

The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.

The gods only go with you if you put yourself in their path. And that takes courage.

The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.

I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark

Every life has a death, and every light a shadow. Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will.

You never know how you'll turn out till you've been down to half a dollar and no prospects.

Where two Greeks are gathered together, there will be at least three political parties represented, and possibly more.

To plant a garden is the chief of the arts of peace.

I knew that I had turned my world back to cinders, sunk my lovely ship with my own stupid, wicked hands.

The place for truth is not in the facts of a novel; it is in the feelings.

All things in Fiji are paid for in blood.

The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.

I think women directors have to be really tenacious.

I suddenly feel left out of a future that isn't even going to happen.

In all the good Greek of Plato I lack my roastbeef and potato. A better man was Aristotle, Pulling steady on the bottle.

All worldly joys are less than that one joy of doing kindnesses.

Within-group conflict is always personal and emotional - even if it begins with impersonal issues.

It's not differences that divide us. It's our judgments about each other that do.

In my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago.

For as spiritual as some people think my books are, I've never really dealt with religious things.