For above all, love is a sharing. Love is a power. Love is a change that takes place in our own heart. Sometimes it may change others, but always it changes us.

May you have happiness, and may you find it making one another happy.

We have the power, knowledge, and equipment to build a world beyond our wonder. Only loss of nerve can defeat us.

Listen to life, and you will hear the voice of life crying, Be!.

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Prayer is spiritual exercise and every act of prayer stretches the soul.

May your marriage bring you all the exquisite excitements a marriage should bring, and may life grant you also patience, tolerance, and understanding.

The length, the depth and the strength of your relationship is determined more by your compatibility in the difficult times than by your compatibility in the better times.

A man must choose his own way of life, and…it is only by following out one’s own bent that there can be the really harmonious life.” [In an interview conducted by Bram Stoker]

Sometimes a flat-footed sentence is what serves, so you don't get all writerly: 'He opened the door.' There, it's open.

Most people say they want justice, but they don't really want justice. They want revenge. They want to see the pain spread around equally.

Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave.

I think I felt that I was very well known for my figure and needed to keep that up for my work. And I regret all of it. I felt fraudulent and very shameful.

Basketball is a game. Baseball is a religion. Baseball is American.

Women aren't interested in being sexy any more and men are. All the guys have objectified themselves and sexualised themselves into being just matinee idols.

I always tell my traders that they would've loved the 1990s because it was a fairly easy time to make money.

I was writing fiction steadily, but I found that the stark determinisms of code were a welcome relief from the ambiguities of literary narrative.