I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory.

Forgetfulness transforms every occurrence into a non-occurrence.

I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.

I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.

Good writing just isn't that common.

How can I survive without a book to read?

Difficulties are things that show what men are.

A mother has far greater influence on her children than anyone else, and she must realize that every word she speaks, every act, every response, her attitude, even her appearance and manner of dress a...

There was once a house built out of memories and inside this house lived a woman called The Memory Snatcher. This woman was my Aunt Beydan. She was a sorceress and as a child I feared she would stalk...

Happiness is when you fight for souls that barely hang on.

I think the worst sort of time travel is how the clock speeds up when I'm on my break.

One of the greatest gifts you can give isyour undivided attention.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.

An act of God was defined as "something which no reasonable man could have expected."

We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.

I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which...

My parents survived the Great Depression and brought me up to live within my means, save some for tomorrow, share and don't be greedy, work hard for the necessities in life knowing that money does not...

What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.