His shout was a syllable so ancient and powerful that Saffiyah's mind instantly censored it.

Dreams of success often get in the way of actual success.

Writers are highly resistant to reality. Just as well or the human condition would go undocumented.

A jewelled garden the envy of Aladdin's cave spilled across the courtyard.

Jin looked both ways for the Quicksilver Dragon before crossing the canal.

The two old men were as still as the stone bench on which they sat, as though their lengthy communion with the element had turned them into statues.

How is something authorised as 'feng shui compliant' he wondered. Is there a Chinese Ministry of Magic?

It was a pity that people did not risk enough to speak out in behalf of one another's happiness and their own.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.

In Haiti you had the Duvaliers for 29 years and they were very well supported by the United States.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

A human being is a vessel that God has built for himself and filled with his inspiration so that his works are perfected in it.

Intellectual achievement. The exercise of skill. Human feeling.

Easy is right. Begin right and you are easy. . . . Easy is right means natural is right, effortlessness is right, egolessness is right.

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.

In a lot of roles, strong women feel like they need to apologize. But men don't need to apologize for being ruthless and women somehow do?