It was unwise to plan too carefully. It took only one great failure to learn that lesson.

How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!

All is pattern, all life, but we can't always see the pattern when we're part of it.

... wore sorrow and anger like a worn-out coat and would not throw it away.

Oh, lovely Europe, your flowers and your wine, your bread, your music.

Danger hides in beauty and beauty in danger.

I stand and listen to people speaking french in the stores and in the street. It's such a pert, crisp language, elegant as ruffling taffeta.

if you cannot but weep when your soul summons you to prayer, she should spur you again and yet again, though weeping, until you shall come laughing

The greatest blessing of prayer is not receiving the answer but being the kind of person God can trust with His answer.

If you call yourself a leader, then you have to be decisive. If you're decisive, then you have the chance to be a leader. These are two sides to the same coin.

I'm interested in creating a space through color contrasts, rather than by simple shadows of light and dark.

Knowledge isn't power, applied knowledge is power

I don't know if I'm really the fastest. It doesn't matter.

We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.

Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post.

You never appreciate your anonymity until you don't have it anymore.

Writing has never been that simple for me.