The biggest form of slavery is the slavery to fear

The elasticity of our dreams can take us to unspoken worlds, but our innate horror of the unknown is what weighs us down. Fight it.Travel to the isolated coils of smoldering dust trapped in our dusky...

On silent moonless nights, I don't feel lonely! I have my greatest friends - my books for company!

I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it's because in addition to the fact that the sea changes, and the light changes, and ships change, it's becaus...

Expired condoms are like nuclear waste: there's nothing sensible you can do with it.

Only through our faith do we allow Him to move in our lives

Human stories are practically always about one thing, really, aren't they? Death. The inevitability of death. . .. . . (quoting an obituary) 'There is no such thing as a natural death. Nothing that ev...

What if you could pick one day of your life, and everything would stop changing, every day would be similar and comparable to that one day, you'd always have the same people with you? If you could do...

You will never attain wisdom without walking on different streets, without talking to different people, without reading different books, in short, without meeting with the things different in every as...

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

Defy your own group. Rebel against yourself.

In 29 years, I had recorded over 2,200 songs. I was amazed.

Why should anyone be frightened by a hat?

When you make a deliberate effort to keep your thoughts positive, and authentically feel that way, more positive outcomes are inevitable.

They (mothers-in-law) never leave when they say they will. When my mother-in-law visits, the mice throw themselves at the cat, begging to be eaten.

The day before the Queen's Ball, Father had a visitor--a very young girl with literary aspirations, someone Lord Lytton had recommended visit Father and sent over–and while Father was explaining to he...

That story I told you as we arrived? About the man who killed the former master of this castle and raped his wife? Did you think it a fairy tale? No, his blood runs in my veins. I was bred to do what...

She lies! cried the Fox, and he leapt toward her, his arm raised.The Wolf lunged, seized the Fox's right arm, twisted it up behind his back, and slammed the other man to his knees.Iris stared and felt...

Pain results from a judgement you have made about a thing. Remove the judgement and the pain disappears.

It hardly mattered. She was tired of waiting for him to acknowledge who he was. Tired of donning a false mask of gaiety when she was so much more—felt so much more—beneath. No one had ever noticed her...