Putting words on paper regularly is part of the necessary discipline of writing. A journal is a great way to do that.

...no woman can love a weak man hard enough to make him strong.

Discomfort is always a necessary part of enlightenment.

...freedom can be a full-time job if you let it.

you can't know the meaning of the lesson until class is over!

When you're young, there's a whole lot of stuff you say you'll never do. Once you get a little older, the list tends to get shorter.

Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music.

Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem.

the problem with knowing is that it takes away the possibility of pretending!

old habits are hard to break, but not impossible!

Vera Stark is a fabulous force of nature.

Dogs don't make mistakes.

Great leadership is by definition relentlessly developmental.

Satire is an abuse of wit. It corrects few evils.

Famine and disaster, right there in front of you, and the more you watch, the less you do.

I do like Guinness, I have to say, because you feel like you're eating something.

I am one of those authors who believes (perhaps foolishly) that she is in complete control of the story.

We are not heading for an eternal void and an eternal silence but we are on our way to an encounter, an encounter with Him who created us and loves us more than mother and father.

What interests me is the unforeseeable.

Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.