In our prayer and meditation we hope for fulfilling ordinary life.

We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.

A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.

The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.

The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close.

You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.

Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.

It is precisely because we resist the darkness in ourselves that we miss the depths of the loveliness, beauty, brilliance, creativity, and joy that lie at our core.

Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.

It may help us, in those times of trouble, to remember that love is not only about relationship, it is also an affair of the soul.

Go where we may, rest where we will, Eternal London haunts us still.

Good posture is important for health reasons, as well as for your appearance, because it reflects your personal attitude.

Gold and silver are constituted, by the nature of things, money, and universal money, independent of all convention, and of all laws.

I do read everything that we publish. We usually have to have two or three votes for a book before we take it on. So in that sense I suppose it is an orchestra.

I'm always being asked to play roles or characters that I don't really resemble.

If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.

We make conscious choices to do something a certain way.

There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.

I like the not knowing of what the next job is.

Some opportunities are a calling. Others are a distraction. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.

The town kept its secrets, and the Marsten House brooded over it like a ruined king.