The path to paradise begins in hell.

Do not be afraid; our fate Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.

If your world isn't right, the cause is in you.

Three things remain with us from paradise: stars, flowers and children.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

Where the way is hardest, there go thou; Follow your own path and let people talk.

If you give people light, they will find their own way.

There is a gentle thought that often springs to life in me, because it speaks of you.

Everywhere is here and every when is now.

Follow your path, and let the people talk.

I care not where my body may take me as long as my soul is embarked on a meaningful journey.

Mozart's music gives us permission to live.

The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.

We are cruel enough without meaning to be.

I think books should have secrets, like people do.

Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

The heart prefers to move against the grain of circumstance; perversity is the souls very life.