Prepare for joy - speak your truth, care for yourself, expand your knowledge, nurture your friendships, let people love you, take on new adventures, go where your heart leads you.

A life-long blessing for children is to fill them with warm memories of times together. Happy memories become treasures in the heart to pull out on the tough days of adulthood.

Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness.

The spiritual warrior hides from nothing. We jump into the fire, we dive into the ocean. We become the sea.

Intimacy requires an ability to both merge and be separate, to come together and be apart, like oscillating on a giant swing from oneness to separateness, creating a constant rhythm.

When we come to the end of our days, the little things will seem so unimportant compared to how well we've loved, laughed and treasured our lives and loved ones.

Where our own mind doesn’t listen to us, how can other’s minds follow what we say? One should not have such expectation at all.

I have travel to sacred places through the pages of books.

It hurts when you lose a friend to death, it hurts even more when you lose a friend still living.

The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths

I can't think of any other job in journalism where the newsmakers come to you.

I am stronger than my trials.

All books should be trilogies; I mean I think we all agree on that.

You think I alienate myself from society? Of course I alienate myself from society. It’s the only way I know of not being constantly reminded of all the ways I’m alienated from society.

Everything starts with writing.

She was the only woman in the homicide unit, and already there had been problems between her and another detective, charges of sexual harassment, countercharges of unrelenting bitchiness.