I just have to be super strong when it comes to my work time. Shut the browser, ignore the email alerts, and just WRITE.

Don't think or judge, just listen.

There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.

Your actions is like a raindrop; it falls into the pond making ripples and then its over.

It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough keys.

Looking at the pond, all I could think was that it is an incredivle thing, how a whole world can rise from what seems like nothing at all.

If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.

You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.

Sometimes a question can hurt more than an answer.

Being brave and self-confident doesn't necessarily start inside...It starts with the rest of the world, and it leads back to you.

There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.

Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth.

What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.

Relentless enthusiasm keeps us young.

To appropriately respond to an emergency requires a very clear mind, to cooly analyze what the observations are and how to fix it.

I seldom know what I'm going to write when I sit down. There isn't much agony and sweat of the human spirit involved in doing it. The writing's easy, it's the living that is sometimes difficult.

Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships

There is a difference between being a bad child and being a wild child. Anybody can be wild, but to be bad you need some kind of knowledge.

Love conquers in the long run. It won't do to become impatient - wait, wait - patience is bound to give success. . . .

Both Mum and Dad were converts to Catholicism, and normally if you convert to Catholicism you have thought about it more than someone who just grew up with it, taking it for granted.