Fear lives in the head. And courage lives in the heart. The job is to get from one to the other.

I was tired of seeing the Graces always depicted as beautiful young things. I think wisdom comes with age and life and pain. And knowing what matters.

Winning doesn't mean my book is better than anyone else's. It means I'm very fortunate. And I should be very, very aware of that. And grateful.

We're all blessed and we're all blighted, Chief Inspector," said Finney. "Everyday each of us does our sums. The question is, what do we count?

It is very, very dangerous to come between a person and their beliefs.

The women in the room chatted about love, about childhood, about losing parents, about Mr. Spock, about good books they'd read. They mothered each other.

In winter the very ground seemed to reach up and grab the elderly, yanking them to earth as though hungry for them.