When I'm having trouble I write by hand. There is some connection between the mind and the fingers that draws out words.

Coincidence is God's way of performing miracles anonymously.

I think our animals are angels, earth-angels, pointing out for us the steadfast path of love, loyalty, optimism, faith, joy, hope. They teach us everything important about life.

A shiver runs down your spine when you realize it is not our imagination. Something is watching us out there.

prayer is nothing more than thought. It is a yearning of the heart.

Prayer is a law of the universe, like gravity. You don't even have to believe in God to ask.

I have a lion inside me, and I had to feed it words every few days; when I don't, it begins to eat me instead.

The urge is to create. The outcome belongs to God.

Angels come in all sizes and shapes and colors, visible and invisible to the physical eye. But always you are changed from having seen one.

Sometimes writer's block is no more than a signal that you have not done enough research.

We all have angels guiding us...They look after us. They heal us, touch us, comfort us with invisible warm hands...What will bring their help? Asking. Giving thanks.

Life may be circular but its circumference keeps getting wider for us to grow.

Are artists and writers the only people entitled to lives of their own?

Is human nature to believe that other places and other times are better than the here and now.

You can see when someone's been hurt the way I was. It's obvious. Something changes in their eyes; pain becomes their center, even when they try to hide it.

What god would be hanging around Terminal Two of Heathrow Airport trying to catch the 15:37 flight to Oslo?

Each day you must choose, the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.

What is done, is done: Spend not the time in tears, but seek for justice.

Whatever it is that you do in your life, you're your own guide.

The Curse of poverty has no justification in our age...The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.

An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.