Where the wound had been given, there must the cure be found, if any where.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

My heart is, and always will be, yours.

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

Our scars make us know that our past was for real

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

The Knowledgeable has the intelligent answer but only the intelligent one asks for a knowledgeable question.

The more we understand the One Idea, how all of life is interconnected and interdependent, the more we can act in positive ways for the good of all.

Loss as muse. Loss as character. Loss as life.

Why had I become a writer in the first place? Because I wasn't fit for society; I didn't fit into the system.

I see in my neighbor the Person of Jesus Christ.

What a wonderful time it is for each of us to do his or her small part in moving the work of the Lord on to its magnificent destiny.

The mind of man, cleansed of secondary and merely temporal concerns, beholds with the radiance of a cleansed mirror a reflection of the rational mind of God.

Yes, even I am dishonest. Not in many ways, but in some. Forty-one, I think it is.

Reality is, you have to work harder the older you get.

A silenced Haiti has once again found its literary voice.