It isn't ever delicate to live.

The day misspent, the love misplaced, has inside it the seed of redemption. Nothing is exempt from resurrection.

Small presses take chances. Chances are at the heart of all the literature we later know as great.

I have tried to live very quietly, so I could be happy.

As for reality, I don't even have any interest in that word.

Who would have guessed it possible that waiting is sustainable. A place with its own harvest.

Failure: the renewable resource.

What keeps me writing is that I can only know through writing. My major sense organ is apparently a pencil.

A too closely watched flower/blossoms the wrong color./Excess attention to the jonquil/turns it gentian. Flowers/need it tranquil to get/their hues right. Some/only open at midnight.

A lot of the job that one has to do as a writer is to protect the thing that doesn't match the world.

It's important to have your private enjoyments because sometimes that's all we have.

It is true, as John Bunyan said, that God infinitely prefers a heart without words to words without a heart when we pray.

Today, I challenge you to pay it forward. You don't need to save a village—only one lost soul. Be the reflection of Christ and shine His light. The cost is little, but the reward is rich.

For god sake, don't put limits on your life. Do what you want, work on what you want and don't listen to people - which haven't succeeded what you want to succeed.

When you think about President Obama, he gives the president of China a five-star dinner at the White House. When somebody rips me off I don't give them five star dinners.

No, I don't understand my husband's theory of relativity, but I know my husband and I know he can be trusted.

Some people have a fear of rejecting all the security that comes with family, church and state. They become fundamentalists.

If Columbus was the first to discover the islands, Americus Vespucius and Cabot, and the Puritans, and we their descendants, havediscovered only the shores of America.

The Six Faces of the future are: Fast, Urban, Tribal, Universal, Radical and Ethical.

Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.

Four in a row! We are overwhelmed with gratitude. This remarkable achievement is a testament to the bravery of our clients and the creativity of our teams around the world.