There are countries of the world, and regions of one's own mind, where it is unwise to travel.

A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.

We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.

In my world death will come chasing. In your world it will start whispering in your ear to destroy yourself. I know this because it started whispering to me when I was in the detention center.

Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.

on a bike ride through the Surrey Lanes, pedalling in my cotton dress through the hot fields blushing with poppies, freewheeling down a sudden dip into a cool wooded sanctum.

Exposing corruption, brandishing truth.

I want to be a journalist again. I want to make a difference in the world.

Let them say whatever gives them comfort.

...disaster, when it is quite sure of its own strength, will announce itself by hardly moving its lips...

...I pluck every day from my sweater or chair, red hairs...strands of significance, traces of you in my life ...

I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many; the camera alone would be enough.

We have a passion for keeping things simple.

Terrorism and war have something in common. They both involve the killing of innocent people to achieve what the killers believe is a good end.

The underlying principles or fundamentals should be so hidden away by the beauty they are eventually to support, that it would require much digging to disclose them.

Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable.

I have a beautiful, big bathtub.

If we tackle corruption, no child would sleep hungry, there would be no injustice, every child would be in school.

As we arise each morning, let us determine to respond with love and kindness to whatever might come our way.

For the Christian, heaven is where Jesus is. We do not need to speculate on what heaven will be like. It is enough to know that we will be for ever with Him.