“Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.”

“As Dostoevski said: ‘Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.”

“When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to be loved.”

“Don’t worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.”

“The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?”