Like a sculptor, if necessary, carve a friend out of stone.Realize that your inner sight is blindand try to see a treasure in everyone.

Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

We may know who we are or we may not. We may be Muslims, Jews or Christians but until our hearts become the mould for every heart we will see only our differences.

Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.

There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

Water in the boat is the ruin of the boat, but water under the boat is its support.

Soul - is a bottomless moneybox disappointment.

...because I went to London on my own, and because I went to solved the mystery of Who Killed Wellington? and I found my mother and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything.

A woman's strength is the irresistible might of weakness.

I think everybody has something that takes them away or makes them happier. To some people it's baseball or sports or knitting or the movies.

Crime can be a unifying argument - not an argument that people use as a code for us vs. them.

I think I would have been a reasonably good lawyer. I have a faculty for making sense of mountains of information.

We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material.

I cannot help leaving my books behind me whenever God calls me hence; but in every other respect, my own hands will be my executors.

You are not doing hip hop; you ARE hip hop.

Why is love easy? I don’t know. And the raccoons don’t say.