Don't you understand that wanting does not belong here, because that is what wounds, and there is never an end to it.

The deepest wounds aren't the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people.

Life has always been a matter of putting one's feet down carefully

Laughter is a powerful weapon for it carries the light. To laugh is to defy the darkness.

Sometimes success demands a certain refined insanity.

If human lives be, for their very brevity, sweet, then beast lives are sweeter still...

Never trust a mirror,' his mother had told him. 'They never tell the truth unless you make them.

Short stories do not say this happened and this happened and this happened. They are a microcosm and a magnification rather than a linear progression.

‎It is better to pursue a hopeless hope than to give in to black despair.

Only humans think death is evil. But it is nature. Evil exist's only in life. There is much good and evil alloted to each life.

That was what happened to laughter when you caged it. It became unbearably sad. It was worse than crying.

A boy trying out a man's language.

If Christians insist only on condemning what they don't like, they will cut themselves off from that shared cultural life.

My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do.

Nowhere nor in anything, except in the assertion of the Church, can we find that God or Christ founded anything like what churchmen understand by the Church.

Arthur, their young king, like a hero out of legend.

The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.

The greatest danger facing our nation isn't terrorism, global warming or the energy crisis. It is out-of-control, unbridled government spending.

That a Parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an entity which by its very nature cannot do work, but can do talk only.

I'm a strategist, not a motivator. I'm obsessed with finding strategies that create real results in the shortest period of time.

We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one.