If you really want to know me, I said, we'll have to start with the witches.

People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find...

Something inexorable seeds itself in the place of your origin. You can never escape the bonds of family history, no matter how far you travel.

It's painful to hold out hope for the things that once brought you joy. You have to find ways to make yourself forget.

My heart is shattered, an all that's left are jagged shards.

I remember her words to me when I left school: Your mind will be your comfort. It is, sometimes. And sometimes it isn't.

I couldn't have imagined how much more there was to lose.

I ... am left with the lingering feeling that the places we go in our minds to find comfort have little to do with where our bodies go.

The older I get, the more I believe that the greatest kindness is acceptance.

To get it all done I have to dim my brain, turn it down by notches like the flat-turn knob on a gas lantern, leaving only a nub of flame.

Do our natures dictate the choices we make, I wonder, or do we choose to live a certain way because of circumstances beyond our control?

You cannot do everything by yourself, you need to learn how to delegate responsibility and trust people that everything will be done on time and with highest quality

You cannot become great by working for salary.

I always fear that creation will expire before teatime.

Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.

A woman driver went through a red light. The cop stopped her and said, Lady, didn't you see that red light? The woman said, You've seen one, you've seen them all.

There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.

It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.

One half of me is yours, the other half is yours, Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours, And so all yours.