My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief..

We can struggle with what is. We can judge and blame others or ourselves. Or we can accept what cannot be changed. Peace comes from an honorable and ….

The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without love, without any of the se….

What I love about the thriller form is that it makes you write a story. You can't get lost in your own genius, which is a dangerous place for writers….

I think that the greatest betrayal that a revolutionary can participate in is to become like the people you are struggling against. To become like yo….

For me, life is about continuously being hungry. It's meaning is not simply to just exist or to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to ….

Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her whic….

The use of the word royalty, as fee to a proprietor for the exploitation of a work or property, derives from the period when the sovereign assumed ti….

If we look at life in its small details, how ridiculous it all seems. It is like a drop of water seen through a microscope, a single drop teeming wit….

The hard struggle which the Pan-Germans fought with the Catholic Church can be accounted for only by their insufficient understanding of the spiritua….

We all would like to struggle like Tiger is struggling..

Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable..

I've seen my whole family struggle, with money, with relationships, with alcohol, and I thought there must be a better way. As you mature, you realiz….

Nine million Americans a year, that we know of, struggle with infertility..

There is no struggle, rift, fight between those who claim the banner of the tea party and those who are in the Republican Party. We work together..

Each time we arrive at a new level in extricating ourselves from economic, social, spiritual domination, we have a moment when we dance in the world ….

I think my core values are all about family and just at the end of the day, coming home and knowing that I'm happy being the person that I am - and t….

Now the world believes in Kurds, as they have become partners in that region. The West doesn't believe in the Iraqi government - not in Maliki before….

The man who is egoless is the man who has no ideals. Let this be the criterion, and you have stumbled upon a fundamental. The man of no ego is the ma….

I think the earlier stages of Alzheimer's are the hardest. Particularly because the person knows that they are losing awareness. They're aware that t….

A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn..