Perhaps she was just looking for love in the wrong places. In all the safe places. What if love was not safe at all?

I can be hurt, she said, only by people I respect.

But if one had everything one could ever need or want, what was left to dream of?

Today people just go on working, working and working. Not because they are creating something fantastic, but simply because they have to work, otherwise they don’t know what to do with themselves.

Often, it takes more guts than skill to open doors. Once the doors get opened, then it's up to you.

They will need you to put the right books in their hands, book in which they can lose themselves and books in which they can find themselves.

God is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge.

And it is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes family and a state.

Our minds are the most mysterious things about us.

What is worth having is worth working for.

You have a humming dodo bird," I said stupidly.

I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter.