To be honest, the only thing I ever really wanted to be was a writer - since I read 'Charlotte's Web' as a child.

The night is a strawberry.

Myrna could spend happy hours browsing bookcases. She felt if she could just get a good look at a person’s bookcase and their grocery cart, she’d pretty much know who they were.

The four sayings that lead to wisdom: I was wrong I'm sorry I don't know I need help

Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving, you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead.

Fear lives in the head. And courage lives in the heart. The job is to get from one to the other.

No good ever comes from putting up walls. What people mistake for safety is in fact captivity. And few things thrive in captivity.

But you want murderous feelings? Hang around librarians," confided Gamache. "All that silence. Gives them ideas.

Better to accept the wretched truth than struggle, twisting to make a wish a reality.

When someone stabs you it's not your fault that you feel pain.

Where there is love there is courage, where there is courage there is peace, where there is peace there is God. And when you have God, you have everything.

A doctorate study is the passion for extensive research, reading, thinking and writing.

Allow yourself to grow. When you think you've seen it all, this is far beyond the truth... There is so much more out there seeking you.

Bravery comes one day at a time.

His heart; some long word at the heart. He is dying of a long word.

The only unfair fight is the one you lose.

If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you're criticizing God.

Gentlemen use books as Gentlewomen handle their flowers, who in the morning stick them in their heads, and at night strawe them at their heeles.

Remember your personal demons should be afraid of you, because you are their home, their food, and as you heal, their executioner.

I never really considered acting as a career until I moved to New York.

The day is not far distant when humanity will realize that biologically it is faced with a choice between suicide and adoration.