You can't make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.

Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus: the fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what they said

Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It's where it all began and ended.

Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower - translated from a French saying

If you can live in Paris, maybe you should.

Live today, for tomorrow we die.

I have a very serious censorship office inside my head; it censors things that I could tell you that you would never forget, and I don't want to be the person to stick that in your brain.

The best Paris I know now is in my head.

Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don't tell them.

One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.

If you're a writer, you're always working.

Salvation is free! God puts no price tag on the Gift of gifts.

How is your book doing?" or "How many copies have you sold?" are the questions for a salesman. To a writer, you better ask "What did you write today?".

I'll be your blanket, baby. Wrap yourself up in me. Let me give you shelter, in the winter of this world.

The only victory over love is flight.

Trade is a communication of cultures and values.

I'm not afraid of IED's, bullets, mortars.

There are those who feel that meditation is unrealistic or takes them out of the world, and if that was your experience with mediation, you weren't meditating.

One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Now is the time of the illuminated woods ... when every leaf glows like a tiny lamp.

George W. Bush did an incredible job in the presidency, defending us from freedom.