The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one's mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind

For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.

And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.

To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.

The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.

You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

Children respect discipline. They want to be guided. It gives them a sense of belonging, a sense of security.

Your inner voice and the spiritual guidance...will lead you to your goal.

And I didn't think even eternity would be long enough to fix me.

Until you learn to play what you want to hear, you're barking up the wrong tree.

[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.

I always thought that "humanist" was a good word long before I understood that anyone thought it was a bad word.

There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have any possibility of being real.

I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image.

Fortunately, many people also enjoy a stand-alone as a sample of something new, like trying the special at a favourite restaurant one night instead of going for the usual.

I think there's an anxiety in life where we automatically tend to look to the next thing or we're complaining about the past. Worrying is not going to make it happen or not happen