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.

Try to read or send a love note everyday. Love is the most powerful force there is in this world and we're not tapping into its power as often as we should.

A man on a mission would bring his heaviest artillery, and it looked like this guy hadn’t even packed a pocket knife.

Everybody exaggerates a little bit.

When someone says his conclusions are objective, he means that they are based on prejudices which many other people share.

You are an artist. The canvas is your life. Make something worth staring at.

When I was young and growing up overweight, I believed the "eaten" was more powerful than the "eater," meaning the food was more powerful than I was.

The more physics you have the less engineering you need.

I would not give my first 15 years to my worst enemy, and I don't even have a worst enemy.

Never fly commercial. That's the moral of this story.

Poles did not like Jews and they were worse than Germans.