We all of us need to be toppled off the throne of self, my dear, " he said. "Perched up there the tears of others are never upon our own cheek.

The sun is still there... even if clouds drift over it. Once you have experienced the reality of sunshine you may weep, but you will never feel ice about your heart again.

All human beings have their otherness and it is that which cries out to the heart.

One is seldom unchanged by the death of those one loves. It gives me a deeper knowledge of them, and so of oneself in regard to them.

These black times go as they come and we do not know how they come or why they go. But we know that God controls them, as he controls the whole vast cobweb of the mystery of things.

The years stretched before her, a long and dusty way, yet if she could walk humbly along it she might find that life, unfolding slowly, keeps its best secrets till the end.

...those who break the law should be loved more and not less for their sin, for if we do not forgive then is sin added to sin and the end is death.

In what he suffered, as in all true suffering and in true joy, there was the quality of eternity. He could not believe it would ever end.

Love, like everything else in life, should be a discovery, an adventure, and like most adventures, you don’t know you’re having one until you’re right in the middle of it.

You are not in love. Love is inside you longing for expression.

We all have choices, some are just harder to make than others

I like taking a character at the most intense moments of their lives and exploring all that in full and then moving on.

A touch of truth makes a lie worth believing.

The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.

It feels strange to have spent much time wishing for something, for someone and then one day, suddenly, to just stop.

Gardening is an instrument of grace.

So after all I am a very promiscuous free lover. I want the love of you all, promiscuously.

When I do form an opinion, I'm very aggressive about it. But I don't form that opinion until I've done a tremendous amount of work.