Much sheer effort goes into avoiding the truth left to itself it sweeps in like the tide.

If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.

Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.

I didn't even know I was a feminist until I read it on the back of one of my own books.

The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.

Fiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can.

Marriage is a very difficult relationship for nearly everyone and I'm sure you shouldn't do it if you want a quiet little easy life.

guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine

She could see that to lose a sibling was hard: it could only seem unnatural:out of time, out of order, a vicious re-run of your own departure into nothingness.

music heard so deeplyThat it is not heard at all, butyou are the musicWhile the music lasts.

If it looks like a duck and sounds like a duck, it could be a really ugly swan.

I've got a sense of humor. I'm a funny guy.

I wouldn't pretend to tell you we don't pay our lawyers well.

When I'm doing well, it's like I'm in a nice little ballet. Everything is going slow all around me. It's very peaceful.

Let us celebrate the soil. Most men toil that they may own a piece of it; they measure their success in life by their ability to buy it.

Freedom is a system based on courage.

Delayed answers to prayer are not only trials of faith; they also give us opportunities to honor God through our steadfast confidence in Him, even when facing the apparent denial of our request.

In the cosmology that's behind psychology, there is no reason for anyone to be here or do anything.

To make something look real and alive, nothing can be symmetrical because nothing in real life is symmetrical. You have to make it look organic.