Normally writers do not talk much,because they are saving their conversations for the readers of their book- those invisible listeners with whom we wish to strike a sympathetic chord.

Happiness is a mysterious thing, to be found somewhere between too little and too much.

and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.

To be able to laugh and to be merciful are the only things that make man better than the beast

It's courage, not luck, that takes us through to the end of the road.

It is always the same with mountains. Once you have lived with them for any length of time, you belong to them. There is no escape.

Red roses for young lovers. French beans for longstanding relationships

I have come to believe that the best kind of walk, or journey, is the one in which you have no particular destination when you set out.

The more you write, the better you will write! So - keep at it!

But the trees seemed to know me. They whispered among themselves and beckoned me nearer.

The past is always with us, for it feeds the present.

The greenest of pastures are right here on earth.

No one can save us accept the Saviour.

Synergy without strategy results to waste of energy.

I'm dumping the whole box back into your life Ed, every item of you and me. I'm dumping this box on your porch, Ed, but it's you, Ed, who is getting dumped.

The sword was not the kingdom, he says.

In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed than for diose who deny the whole of it.

We have, during his regime, during President Obama's regime, we've doubled our national debt. We're up to $20 trillion.

Grief moves us like love. Grief is love, I suppose. Love as a backwards glance.

Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the Staring Business.

If I like you, I'm going to tell you. I'm a hugger, even with men: I'm just very deep.