This is the definition of happiness: a whole day stretching out ahead of me, beautiful in its emptiness and simplicity.

As the light begins to intensify, so does my misery, and I wonder how it is possible to hurt so much when nothing is wrong.

At what point do you give up - decide enough is enough? There is only one answer really. Never.

...and my loneliness, always my loneliness - that airless bubble of despair that is slowing stifling me.

Out of the millions and millions of people that inhabit this planet, he is one of the tiny few I can never have.

Trying to describe my life and feelings to you is like trying to describe coulours to the blind, or music to the deaf. It's simply not possible.

At the age of five she has already come to terms with one of the life's harshest lessons: that the world isn't fair.

At the end of the day it's about how much you can bear, how much you can endure. Being together, we harm nobody; being apart, we extinguish ourselves.

How can something so wrong feel so right?

It's always nice being wanted. Even if it's by the wrong person.

You've always been my best friend, my soul mate, and now I've fallen in love with you too. Why is that such a crime?

When we will learn to emulate the peacefulness of a tree, love of a flower, the earth will be a garden of love and peace.

In Christian terms, evangelization and humanization are not alternatives. Nor are the 'vertical dimension' of faith and the 'horizontal dimension' of love for one's neighbor and political change.

I quit law in 1988 to start writing, and it took me 17 years from that point to get a book contract. I guess you can say I was on the slow train.

Public opinion's always in advance of the law.

A literal interpretation of the Gita lands one in a sea of contradictions.

Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures.

In many traditions, crows are messengers and close attention is paid to their actions.

Your skin's so fair its not fair

Popularity is neither fame nor greatness.

My music is like a spinning ball. It can turn in one direction, and then it comes back to origins.