What we work so hard to avoid is the shattering of our lives by horrors we know we will be helpless to control.

This is why there is something awful about human freedom. This power to make a choice which will never cease to reverberate.

When we operate on the basis of the will to control, we are aware of only one kind of "evil": the failure of existence to conform to the plan we have for it.

Is is as if life or reality itself has had it in mind all along to unravel the very design i have been trying all along to impose on it.

In order to be able to fulfill mission, mission, you need to understand the unique gift incorporated within you

Peace be upon him who follows the Straight Path!

If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas.

Reincarnation is a process in which a finite being will go through a series of transmutations and will perceive different things. There will be a continuity of perception.

Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide open heart that thinks of others first.

I want to make my mum's life and my life safe.

I talk to myself on paper about my characters - sometimes writing in first person... I keep lists of unanswered questions that I can always turn to in order to get myself going.

President Eisenhower was a fine general and a good, decent man, but if he had fought World War II the way he fought for civil rights, we would all be speaking German now.

If bad taste were a felony, every writer I know would've done prison time.

The pain was so deep and so raw. There were days I would have died just to forget. The problem was, I couldn't figure out how to get her out of my mind. How do you kill that kind of pain?