True wisdom comes in understanding that sometimes, you are both the prison and the key.

Beauty exists not in what is seen and remembered, but in what is felt and never forgotten.

No price is too high to pay, to be the author of your fate.

When darkness falls, beauty is lit from within.

Even those afraid of the dark must live through half of each day as night, to come to see the beauty in each.

Friends are life's ingredient that makes every sad moment sweeter, every difficult time easier, and every normal moment extraordinary.

True, lasting peace comes not through stamping out the ignorance of others, but through cultivating acceptance with ourselves.

Darkness is but a door, scary not because it opens, but out of fear that it will never close

There is no greater despair, than to tread with care upon ice that is already broken

The most precious etchings of caring can be traced not in the scope of its message, but in the integrity of its purpose.

Worry adds no hours to a day, nor happiness to a smile, so it is not worth succumbing to, especially when it obscures the sight of potential.

Our Soul Allies light the fire in those initial visits, but it’s up to us to keep it burning.

I think my weakness as a writer is a limited imagination, and I think my strength is a talent for reflecting the world, or sort of curating things out of the world and putting them into books.

The greatest barrier to women's advance in the public world of action has been their acquiescence in the idea that they don't belong out there.

Omit and substitute! That's how recipes should be written. Please don't ever get so hung up on published recipes that you forget that you can omit and substitute.

I can't think of anything I would do differently in my life. It would be nice to undo some of my mistakes I made over the years, but then I wouldn't have grown professionally or personally.

We are only as blind as we want to be.

The hell with "love" anyway, and with every other phony, time-wasting, half-assed emotion in the world.

All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion.

Things that are bad for business are bad for the people who work for business.

Who will excuse us before God for the loss of such a great number of people, who could be saved by the slight assistance we could give them?