I think when you're a beginning author with any publishing company, there's only so much they can put behind you.

Don't think or judge, just listen.

There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.

Your actions is like a raindrop; it falls into the pond making ripples and then its over.

It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough keys.

Looking at the pond, all I could think was that it is an incredivle thing, how a whole world can rise from what seems like nothing at all.

If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.

You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.

Sometimes a question can hurt more than an answer.

Being brave and self-confident doesn't necessarily start inside...It starts with the rest of the world, and it leads back to you.

There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.

At thirty a man should know himself like the palm of his hand know the exact number of his defects and qualities. ... And above all accept these things.

I have a house in the Connecticut countryside where you'll always find me, summer or winter.

If our core belief is based on what other people think, then we eventually will allow their opinions to become our reality.

You'll find people where their conditions aren't changing in any way, its rather rare for them to be happy.

I have enough energy to write with and as that is all I have any business doing anyhow, I can with one eye squinted take it all as a blessing.

A woman usually respects her father, but her view of her husband is mingled with contempt, for she is of course privy to the transparent devices by which she snared him.

I've got the Jewish guilt and the Irish shame and it's a hell of a job distinguishing which is which.

Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.

Recognize the skills and traits you don't possess, and hire the people who have them.

If there were no girls like them in the world, there would be no poetry