Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

When your afraid of somethingyou hide behind a mask.It might be to protect yourself, But if you hide long enoughthen you forget who you really are.You must come out.

The mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear Him.

The present is the only reality and the only certainty.

The assumption of Jesus' program for his people on earth was that they would live their lives as his students and co-laborers.

I'm a bit of a tomboy, but when it comes to love I am a doormat.

Reason has, especially today, many other manifestations than philosophical ones.

Bugs have always loved me.

Our emotions are made by God, yet they too must bow before Him

You can never have international peace as long as you have national poverty.

I don't believe that military intervention is always the right approach. What we need is a comprehensive strategy, one that advances democratization, economic reforms and equal rights for women.