Where does your soul walk? Does it walk in the sunlit woods or hide in the shadowy forest?

I must give you this warning: your journeys will rarely ever go as you plan. You will make mistakes, and you will feel lost. Whenever that happens, look to the light and keep moving forward in faith.

In the quiet of the graveyard, the couple knelt together in soul-stretching silence—wishing, waiting, hoping, praying.

Willpower, though important in its own way, is never enough. In order for you to be truly powerful, you must open up and trust in something beyond yourself—something you cannot prove for certain.

Have faith in the light you carry.

Faith is believing in something you cannot prove for certain.

Always go as far as you can see, then let faith take you the rest of the way.

And so I tell you, restless one, that no matter what happens, when things get dark, look to the light and keep moving forward in faith.

I didn't just see a child in my dreams—I felt it in my heart.

Where does your soul walk?

All churches are an echo of this—the Cathedral of Nature.

What is reading but silent conversation.

They burnt down the whole palace and they laughed menacingly. The shadows of the dreams and memories they burnt alive walked all over the ruins, trying to hold on to the charred pieces of their body.

For as long as she could remember, she had thought that autumn air went well with books, that the two both somehow belonged with blankets, comfortable armchairs, and big cups of coffee or tea.

You'd be surprised how rare loyalty is, sometimes.

If I win, I'll take my wife and buy her a whole new wardrobe. If she's happy then I'll be happy.

I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.

I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.

Playing chess is more athletic than artistic. Champions are more concerned with victory than beauty: it's war with occasionally graceful kicks.

Societies don't become less self-indulgent; people do.

I've got a passion for solving a problem that I think I can solve in a new way. And that maybe it helps that nobody has done it before as well.