Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.

The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.

The need to impress others causes half the world's woes.

You can not escape a prison if you do not know you're in one.

Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it's the understanding of something.

Be teachable. That is the whole secret.

A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.

See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.

When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.

It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.

You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.

Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.

...and so many orchards circled the village that on some crisp October afternoons the whole wold smelled like pie.

Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head

When you start writing the magic comes when the characters seem to take on a life of their own and write the words for themselves.

I feel as if when you love a book it becomes a part of you whether you have it on your shelves or not.

When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always.

I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real.... Once I got to my desk, once I started writing, I still believed anything was possible.

When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.