We don't need a destination or a way of navigating, because we'll go wherever it takes us

Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.

It is almost as if happiness is an acquired taste, like coconut cordial or ceviche, to which you can eventually become accustomed, but despair is something surprising each time you encounter it.

I am heartbroken, but I have been heartbroken before, and this might be the best for which I can hope.

What do your parents know, about surviving?

We are respecting our parents' wishes....They didn't want to shelter us from the world's treacheries. They wanted us to survive them.

If you ask one question, it will lead you to another, and another. It's like peeling an onion.

...The sea... some have said is nothing but a library of all the tears in history.

..no matter how much one reads, the whole story can never be told.

Never stop dreaming, but please stop sleeping!

The events that occur in my life are workout situations. They are there for my benefit so I can become strong and gain wisdom and information by working my way through those situations.

The feeling itself is the language your Higher Self listens to.

The best way to find inner peace is the practice in forbearance.

Among wellborn spirits courage does not depend on age.

Socrates said, "Those who want fewest things are nearest to the gods.

The novels that attract me most are those that create an illusion of transparency around a knot of human relationships as obscure, cruel, and perverse as possible.

A quantity which is increased or decreased by an infinitely small quantity is neither increased nor decreased.

When we are open to ourselves and our own experience, and therefore, open to the world, then the world can respond.