“We find our power in the same place as our pain.”

We can never know truth, but some stories are better than others.

Good writing is difficult no matter what the reader’s age-and children deserve the best.

You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.

What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.

I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.

What I find interesting is how close you can run the laughter along the seam of seriousness, and occasionally cross it, so that half the house genuinely doesn’t know whether to laugh or cry.

It is by finding out what something is not that one comes closest to understanding what it is.

All we have to do is find such strength within ourselves. Know how to develop it.

Every man needs to find a peak, a mountain top or a remote island of his own choosing that he reaches under his own power alone in his own good time.

Whoever is not made glorified by taqwa can find no glory.