Identity is your role in life, the part you play. Individuality is who you are, and who you are is revealed to you if you can get to complete presence.

There is nothing more lonely than a true artist.

Have some fun while you wait for the will of heaven.

Life is absolutely, mysteriously beautiful.

Books are in the mind, Grandfather Alessandro said. Too many books and you forget your body is in the world.

God made man because he loves to hear stories, Alessandro said. That's a good story, huh?

Every time you hear a car alarm, Ruby said, another New Yorker has gone to hell.

I was wounded by a blow of love.

Writers owed their readers a duty of care, of mercy.

This is home and home is not something you remember, it is something you see every day and every moment.

Take decision each single time to ascertain that you are getting the best every time.

There's a lot of exhibitionists who want to tell their stories anonymously and there's a whole lot of voyeurs who want to feel like a fly on the wall and hear about people's lives.

If you have political reform in the Islamic world, the spiritual reform would follow.

But the LORD Almighty will be exalted by his justice, and the holy God will show himself holy by his righteousness.

I am drawn to any story that makes me want to read from one sentence to the next. I have no other criterion.

When every day seems the same, it is because we have stopped noticing the good things that appear in our lives.

Never feel lonely. You are never lonely. At the deepest core of your being, God resides.

Artistry has to define the Artist so there is no other way but to create the kind of music that speaks about who you are and what's important to you, therefore individualizing the Artist.