I don't like to have to pan for gold when I read.

Salzburg... is a mountain town with a rushing river running right through the center, everything in the rain various shades of green and brown.

For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat.

My memory loves you… it asks about you all the time.

Sometimes it is the smallest thing that saves us: the weather growing cold, a child's smile, and a cup of excellent coffee.

The only two important things in life are real love and being at peace with yourself.

Learn to wait; invariably either things will change or your heart will.

You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.

May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the world.

The fact that I’m silent doesn’t mean I have nothing to say.

People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both.

I still don't belong to anyone - I am mine.

If you only knew how many sentences I have withheld in hopes that I will be allowed to speak them into your heart one day.

As a magician you will miss the hundred percent of the applause if you don't perform.

I never commit to memory anything that can easily be looked up in a book

There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing

The only reasonable outcome of a nation's sins is to learn not to repeat them.

Moral courage, to me, is much more demanding than physical courage.

The Qur'an says speak not of those who are slain in the way of God as "dead," or die in the way of Allah as "dead," "they are alive, but you perceive not."

There are only two states of being in the world of codependency - recovery and denial.

Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.