We have to believe that every person counts, counts as a creative force that can move mountains.

More than any other beauty (though it is true of all beauty except in art) passion seems to me to have the seeds of its own destruction in it.

Words are more powerful than perhaps anyone suspects, and once deeply engraved in a child's mind, they are not easily eradicated.

A good marriage shuts out a very great deal.

It is sometimes the most fragile things that have the power to endure and become sources of strength.

Unless the gentle inherit the earth, / There will be no earth.

I have never written a book that was not born out of a question I needed to answer for myself.