You write to suit some sense in yourself and trust that that will resonate with a certain wider readership.

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

A finished person is a boring person.

There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother... Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.

After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more a solution than forks and spoons are a solution to world hunger.

Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.

You are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life ... Your entire life ... Not just the life of your mind, but the life of your heart. Not just your bank account, but your soul.

America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security.

you think I am going to give up now? I'm so close.

The decisions we take reflects our belief and our charachter

Death is just a distant rumour to the young.

I'm not a thrill seeker. I'm not looking to get kidnapped. I'm not looking to get a shot at. I've been shot at. I didn't like it.

Do no harm. Do good. Stay in love with God.

I don't need faith. I have experience.

Love came when you weren't looking, except in the case of millions who found mates on Match.com, but, hey. It sounded good.

Without vision you don't see, and without practicality the bills don't get paid.

Men are sensitive in strange ways. If a man has built a fire and the last log does not burn, he will take it personally.

In the end, today is forever, yesterday is still today, and tomorrow is already today.