If you educate a man you educate a person but if you educate a woman you educate a family.

You can remodel yourself to anything you want to become.

Love and adventure are life's condiments.

What drew her into O’Riley’s like a bee to honey was the six-foot, broad-shouldered, dark eyes, dark smile of Finn O’Riley himself.

Life is painting a picture not doing a sum.

And can it be that in a world so full and busy the loss of one creature makes a void so wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth of eternity can fill it up!

He grinned at her, and she grinned at him, and it seemed to Maria that suddenly the sun came out.

There's times when you see people climbing and getting success and you start to see, oh, they're starting to really change. So I always just make the effort to be as humble and grateful as possible.

Bracketing has turned all my experiences, remembered and present, into a gallery of miracles where I wander around dazzled by the beauty of events I cannot explain.

I found the one, he changed my life, but was it me that changed?

No one's policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.