Why do you always have to be right. Why do you always have to have the last word. For once in your life just let it go.

The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.

We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

The fear is for what is still to be lost.

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

Short stories demand a certain awareness of one's own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus.

Thank God who set me from all my sins by the power of His free gift of grace.

Instead of magnifying the problem in your thoughts, magnify God.

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend- provided of course he really is dead.

We humans have an amazing way of making everything personal.

To be honest, I wrote so many drafts of this book [ The Nightingale ] and changed the characters so many times; the real surprise is that I finished the book at all.

The costs of government are bound to be much higher than those of the free market. . .The State cannot calculate well and therefore cannot gauge its costs accurately.

You have to drink when it's hard dealing with things when you're sober.

It's a big question. Where do you begin to change the world?

Pan me, don't give me the part, publish everybody's book but this one and I will still make it!