There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat.

It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?

People change and forget to tell each other.

It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.

Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don't get it.

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.

The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.

The days she was finally brought out of the house would later be remembered as a day when shadows seemed blacker, as if something more lingered in those darkened spaces.

Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart.

There's a lot of dark stuff from the '80s that we don't think about.

You must feel love within, before you can share it.

Loke who that is most vertuous alway, Prive and apert, and most entendeth ay To do the gentil dedes that he can, And take him for the gretest gentilman.

Heed not Mephistopheles, my children, lest you suffer eternal damnation. When he whispers in your ear, turn away your head and hearken instead to the angel on your shoulder.

God is not solitude, but perfect communion. For this reason the human person, the image of God, realizes himself or herself in love, which is a sincere gift of self.

A novel means a new way of doing a story

We are continually experiencing the conditioning to hold on, tighten, or resist.

People who know me know that theres a light-hearted side, humour... But you could easily say I am cheeky.