...I've returned and I look around me and think, I've missed my life. While I was off and alone, it went on here, without me, and I'm forever doomed to be a stranger in my own home.

Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.

I think that old magic draws much of its strength from that acknowledgment: that we are a part of that world.

There is nothing dishonorable about abandoning pain. Sometimes peace is most quickly found when a man simply stops avoiding it.

Leave old pains alone. When they cease coming to call, do not invite them back.

As much as I had always longed to be freed of my duties and obligations, being released from such bonds was as much a severing as an emancipation.

The past is no further away than the last breath you took.

And what do you believe?”A slow smile spread over his face. “I believe in you. You are my new beginning.

Regrets are useless, " the Fool replied. "All you can do is start from where you are.

Despite my pain, I felt not the regret of an ending, but the foreboding of a beginning.

I love women whose hidden desires make horses put an end to their lives at the threshold

Some things will go wrong for each of us, the most important thing is your attitude in that circumstance

To know that you are loved gives you confidence, security and fulfilment in life.

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.

Sometimes, God uses difficult people, like sandpaper, to rub the rough edges off us.

What makes for the good society is a sound economy. Without it, all the rest falls apart.

Above all things, respect yourself.

One of the tests that I frequently use in an interaction is I push on the idea and what I'm looking for is both flexibility & persistence.

My Italian-American heritage, of which I'm very proud and with which I identify strongly, surfaces in several of my novels.