Coincidence is a messenger sent by truth.

Memories are links in a golden chain that bind us until we meet again.

Stay with the question. The more it troubles you, the more it has to teach you.

Yes, it does make the load rather heavy if you carry tools for every eventuality.

My first ever job after college was as a flight attendant. I wanted to travel and could not afford it, so I decided to get myself a job where I could travel. I did it for two years and had great fun.

It's really important in any historical fiction, I think, to anchor the story in its time. And you do that by weaving in those details, by, believe it or not, by the plumbing.

It was time to move on, to dance with life again.

a question has the most power before we rush to answer it, when it is still making us think, still testing us.

I often think it would be really interesting to take all of those who would wage war to the battlefield cemeteries, and say, explain yourself to the dead. Explain yourself to the dead!

One always has riches when one has a book to read.

Never judge a journey by the distance.

And indeed it could be said that once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of plague was ended.

Accidental wisdom is better than willful folly.

Goldfish get big enough only for the bowl you put them in. Bonsai trees twist in miniature. I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them.

The man who makes no mistakes lacks boldness and the spirit of adventure. He never tries anything new. He is a brake on the wheels of progress.

History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.

Thought nourishes, sustains and gives continuity to fear and pleasure.

Truth is to be sought with a mind purified from the passions of the body. Having overcome evil things, thou shalt experience the union of the union mortal divinity with the mortal man.

It's the thought that counts.

Many people try to avoid pressure, yet the absence of any tension or pressure usually creates a sense of boredom and the lackluster experience of life that so many people complain about.

It is courage the world needs, not infallibility...courage is always the surest wisdom.