often enough, we owe our good fortune to someone else’s loss.

If time heals all wounds, and a book can hold a person's entire life, then you can speed up the process with a pulp time warp.

We are thickly layered, page lying upon page, behind simple covers. And love - it is not the book itself, but the binding.

I was like a chocolate in a box, looking well behaved and perfect in place, all the while harboring a secret center.

Maybe it was better to be who he thought I was than who I thought I was.

It was about the way a moment, a single moment, could change things and make you decide to try to be someone different.

Success comes as a result of working towards fulfilling your potential and closing the gap between who you are now and who you are capable of becoming.

They say that none of us exists, except in the imagination of his fellows, other than as an intangible, invisible mentality.

When it comes to making friends, it is never about how many that you have, but about the kind of energy that they bring. Please choose wisely.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

God never does anything according to what you want. It's never your will. It's His will.

I have always drawn strength from being close to home.

Only the wounded physician heals.

I don't have any children, but if I had a baby, I would have to name it, so I would get a baby-naming book. Or I would invite somebody over who had a cast on.

Everything we do, I'd imagine, influences everything we will do.

Learn to recognise the mother in Evil, Terror, Sorrow, Denial, as well as in Sweetness and in Joy.