If I had to give a definition of happiness, it would be this: happiness needs nothing but itself; it doesn’t have to be validated.

In one way or another, every parent is curious what their children... what are they doing when we don't see?... What double lives are they leading? Is there something else?

I am not a great planner, so I have just a vague idea. And then I start to find out what kind of book I actually want to write.

The stupid woman is the one who thinks she doesn’t need any help.

Around here, we're as happy as God in France.

When I'm writing I get easily bored.

When the conversation turns too quickly to films,I see it as a sign of weakness.

When the conversation turns too quickly to films, I see it as a sign of weakness.

O thy! Thou made me infinite with infinite love.Not by finishing, but by transforming to infinite for infinite joy!

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

Rise above oneself and grasp the world.

[I can't start the day without] checking my cellphone... I love messages!

It blew my mind that what I was thinking was actually applicable to people's lives, and it certainly revolutionized family.

There's a point when you go with what you've got. Or you don't go.

As long as we can remember them, our families will always be with us.

And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! He chortled in his joy.

On the Black Sea, my father saw it begin. And on the Black Sea, seventy years on, I saw the beginning of its end.

Much of what happens in our world is evil and bad, but God specializes in bringing good out of it.