You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself enough.

I'm all alone, but I'm not lonely.

If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.

Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted.

A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.

Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.

This is what it means to live on. When granted hope, a person uses it as fuel, as a guidepost to life. It is impossible to live without hope.

It's not me but the world that's deranged.

What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or getting on the same bus.

Gratitude is who you are, sans baggage.

I'm not a competitive person and I think women like me because they don't think I'm competitive just nice.

The expectations of life depend upon diligence the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

Earth reserves no blessing For the unblessed of Heaven!

I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish.

The Population Reference Bureau predicts that the world's total population will double to 7,000,000,000 before the year 2000. I suppose they will all want dignity, I said.

I know I have a responsibility as a role model to children and I try to fulfill that.

He is a friend indeed who proves himself a friend in need.

Lessons of Life: When you stop yearning, When you stop aspiring. You stop living.

Security is the chief enemy of mortals.