Writing is the only place I can be myself and not feel judged.

I'm the only one who can stop me.. I'm the one who's been sitting at the stoplight all these years, waiting for the light to turn green.

Writing is my shelter. I don't hide behind the words; I use them to dig inside my heart to find the truth.

If you jump to conclusions, you make terrible landings.

Pay attention to the things that agitate you. It will tell you a lot about yourself.

It's amazing how we can make ourselves believe what we want to.

People like to run their mouths.

Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.

As a writer, you get to bring attention to something without preaching. I don't believe in being didactic. So if you dramatize something, you automatically bring attention to it if people read it.

I'm more interested in interpersonal relationships - between lovers families, siblings. That's why I write about how we treat each other.

Folks want to glow, to leave their worries and dead skin behind.

Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy —the joy of being Salvador Dalí— and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things is this Salvador Dalí going to accomplish today?

We fly with our dreams, we fall with our hesitations!

...for everytime I see the sky I'm aware of belonging to the universe than to just one corner of the earth.

You're alive, Haven, but when are you going to start living?

Humility: The most quietly profound professor in the university of Christian living.

Hazrat Ali, in a saying attributed to him, says: ‘Man is in disguise, covered by his tongue’.

It's frustrating; terrorism is rare and largely ineffectual, yet we regularly magnify the effects of both their successes and failures by terrorizing ourselves.

Fear, in evolution, has a special prominence: perhaps more than any other emotion it is crucial for survival.

We, however, place the love of God and His honour above our own and above the acquisition of many regions

There are moments. You will know them.