...there is little that comes so close to death as fulfilled love.

I realised the amazing power of literature and of the human imagination generally: to make the dead live and to stop the living from dying.

The world is like an enormous set of scales. When evil begins to outweigh good, angels cram themselves in on the lighter side. You can't see them, but there they are, restoring the balance.

If we lose our memory, we lose ourselves. Forgetting is one of the symptoms of death. Without memory we cease to be human beings.

To destroy is easier than to create, and that is why so many people are ready to demonstrate against what they reject. But what would they say if one asked them what they wanted instead?

Justice was revenge wrapping itself in a cloak of high principle.

Man is afraid to attain what he longs for, just as subconsciously he longs for what he is afraid of.

A picture was a motionless record of motion. An arrested representation of life. A picture was the kiss of death pretending to possess immutability.

Graveyards remind us of the vanity of all human endeavour.

Animals have one thing that puts them way ahead of people: they don't dissemble, and you don't have to pretend in front of them.

If you tell anything to a woman ... it's like putting it in the papers.

If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.

Don't trust people who tell you other people's secrets.

The Lord is your shepherd

God plants our spiritual giftings deep, so it will take years to claim them, but that gives Him time to refine His message in our hearts.

Let the moment come when nothing is left but life, and you will find that you do not hesitate over the fate of material possessions.

All happiness is inside your own mind. Chances are, you have not discovered that. Meditation is about experiencing the happiness inside your mind.

I only want to do the kind of work that I would like to go and see, that's going to teach me something new, that involves working with people I can learn something from and I can give something to.

Quit demagoguing. It's not true.

It's nothing mystical, necessarily. It's nothing secretive. It's just what we do with our body we do with our soul.

The ego knows itself by comparison.