Very little worth knowing is taught by fear.

Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.

Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?

Leave the pain behind and let your life be your own again. There is a place where all time is now, and the choices are simple and always your own. Wolves have no kings

There is little in life so reassuring as a genuine welcome.

Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.

Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.

Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.

Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey.

Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?

Majority does not mean Right. Minority does not mean Wrong. Always maintain a stand for what is right.

Bear and forbear.

Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.

Why is it that you can sometimes feel the reality of people more keenly through a letter than face to face?

It is profitable for Christians to be often calling to mind the very beginnings of grace with their souls.

Genius begins beautiful works, but only labor finishes them.

As a novelist, I'm endlessly fascinated by human behavior and interactions.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.

Well I think it has always been a mistake to reduce the peace process in Ireland to a decommissioning process.

How far must you go to gain respect? Um... Well, it's kind of simple: just remain your own. Or you'll be crazy sad and alone.