Just imagine how interesting it would be if I were to publish a romance of the "Secret Annexe." The title alone would be enough to make people think it was a detective story.

Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because the regret is stronger than gratitude.

What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven't even happened yet.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

Whoever is happy will make others happy.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us.

You can always give something, even if it is only kindness.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness.

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!

If you think the world is a tough place, it time to change your lens!!!!

They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together.

Mindfulness is a mental activity that in due course eliminates all suffering.

Catholic homes caught fire because they were loaded with petrol bombs.

He that slayeth an ox is as he that killeth a human.

Tolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand another's beliefs, practices, and habits without necessarily sharing or accepting them.

I thought I was a revolutionary and was only an evolutionary.

So when things start going badly, you're invested in the characters in a way I think amplifies the horror and the fear because you're invested.

While I may never be in remission from cancer, I am currently in remission from an unhealthy relationship to food.

It's a new medium, it's a universal medium and it's not itself a medium which inherently makes people do good things, or bad things. It allows people to do what they want to do more efficiently.