Power's twin is responsibility.

I always keep my temper with my enemies, and that inclines me to lose it with my friends.

The teeth of self-pity had gnawed away her essential self.

The three kinds of services you generally find in the Episcopal churches. I call them either low-and-lazy, broad-and-hazy, or high-and-crazy.

Anything that can happen to someone else, can happen also to you.

the loneliest place to be is a hotel room in a big city in early evening.

The truth has a ring of its own. You learn in time to identify it.

From little pain you flinch away but great pain must be embraced.

Pain is a new room in your house.

Minds are like oysters. They spoil if you pry them open.

Facts - all facts - explain and confirm each other. They are only partially true until you link them together.

No person is ever wrong in how they experience their reality.

Other people dream while they are asleep. I plot new book ideas.

The biggest dog has been a pup.

I used to dream about turning back time, about reclaiming the things I'd lost and the person I used to be.

We have to treasure our country, our freedom, the progress we've made, and if we see any of that threatened, we have to respond.

Music is such an integral part of a film and really drives the emotional narrative, it has to be integrated from the beginning.

In self-giving you must be so careful of egotism. You must be so careful when you are aiding others in their liberation not to have a sense of self.

Because of the varroa mite, wild honey bees are now, for all practical purposes, extinct in the United States.