When we operate on the basis of the will to control, we are aware of only one kind of "evil": the failure of existence to conform to the plan we have for it.

This is why there is something awful about human freedom. This power to make a choice which will never cease to reverberate.

Is is as if life or reality itself has had it in mind all along to unravel the very design i have been trying all along to impose on it.

What we work so hard to avoid is the shattering of our lives by horrors we know we will be helpless to control.

if youre never scared, or embarased, or hurt, it means you never take any chances.

For my part whatever anguish of spirit it may cost I am willing to know the whole truth - to know the worst and provide for it.

I never ask for mercy and seek no one's sympathy.

You should not be subjected to the pressures, the intimidation, whether by Government or by the private sector, which would force you into self-censorship.

As humans we like to laugh at our fears, we like to whistle in the dark.

We can't allow ourselves to become inured to terrorist attacks to see it as the new normal.

there is no 'feminine writing' ... and one makes a mistake is using and giving currency to this expression.

Help other people to cope with their problems, and your own will be easier to cope with.

Long before you were conceived by your parents, you were conceived in the mind of God.

You have to make a joke every 10–15 minutes. It’s a way of keeping up morale.