Where there is love there is courage, where there is courage there is peace, where there is peace there is God. And when you have God, you have everything.

Foolish people are never harmless. Stupidity accounts for as many crimes as anger and greed.

Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving, you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead.

Don't mistake dramatics for a conscience.

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.

Better to accept the wretched truth than struggle, twisting to make a wish a reality.

I had to learn compassion. Had to learn what it felt like to hate, and to forgive and to love and be loved. And to lose people close to me. Had to feel deep loneliness and sorrow. And then I could write.