Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.

If something is wrong, fix it now. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing.

Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

I drink to make other people more interesting.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

And now the story begins for the last time.

Love is a verb. We have to let our love call us to action.

Houses are like people - some you like and some you don't like - and once in a while there is one you love.

He was feeling totally lost, leaving his family and country for a place where he knew nobody and didn't even speak the language.

Many of the most significant moments in our lives come not because it all went right but because it all fell apart

I have always been interested in gender politics, so I'm not that keen on doing things that don't represent a truth about women.

If you are willing to do only what's easy, life will be hard. But if you are willing to do what's hard, life will be easy.

The Forty Rules of Love is a wise, joyous page-turner... and one that speaks urgently to our war-ravaged times.

Nigeria is like everywhere, really: there are some beautiful places that have been invested in and others that haven’t been.

I don't know how your theology works, but if Jesus has a choice between stained glass windows and feeding starving kids in Haiti, I have a feeling he'd choose the starving kids in Haiti.