When reason sleeps, the monsters of repression will emerge.

You make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing.

A girl expecting rescue never learns to save herself. Even with the means, she will find her courage wanting.

Memory is a cruel mistress with whom we all must learn to dance.

It's a terrible thing, isn't it, the way we throw people away?

Reluctance to begin is quick to befriend procrastination. . . .

In each man's heart there lies a hole. A dark abyss of need, the filling of which takes precedence over all else.

His words had tossed the book that was her life into the air and the pages had been blown into disarray, could never be put back together to tell the same story.

It was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the possibilities of the new season.

There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.

But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors.

We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.

Virtue of prayer, virtue of patience.

If you must chase make certain its with passion so you may reap a worthy reward.

Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure.

If you can't have a good time and smile and relate to people across race and class, then the success that you have ultimately is just sounding brass and tinkling symbol.

It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.

I believe that through positive thoughts, speech, action and attitudes, we change things for the better.

Some lines were never meant to be crossed, however good your cause may seem.

Being a songwriter requires versatility while being an artist requires you to create a cohesive body of work. I truly enjoy both.