Where there is love there is courage, where there is courage there is peace, where there is peace there is God. And when you have God, you have everything.

The night is a strawberry.

Myrna could spend happy hours browsing bookcases. She felt if she could just get a good look at a person’s bookcase and their grocery cart, she’d pretty much know who they were.

The four sayings that lead to wisdom: I was wrong I'm sorry I don't know I need help

Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving, you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead.

Fear lives in the head. And courage lives in the heart. The job is to get from one to the other.

No good ever comes from putting up walls. What people mistake for safety is in fact captivity. And few things thrive in captivity.

But you want murderous feelings? Hang around librarians," confided Gamache. "All that silence. Gives them ideas.

Better to accept the wretched truth than struggle, twisting to make a wish a reality.

When someone stabs you it's not your fault that you feel pain.

It's a shame that creativity and sloth look exactly the same.

Relax

So I left words of forgiveness to God and liars and I enjoyed my hatred.

So few people read poetry. That's sad, isn't it?

Very well then, better a sane crook than a mad puritan.

My dad always said he couldn't remember a time when I did not want to act.

When the loo paper gets thicker and the writing paper thinner, it's always a bad sign, at home.

You can learn from everybody.

There is nothing to say because I know everything about him. I raised him. I know what's a charade, and I know what's not a charade. I'll leave it at that.

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.