"He who understands his own mind is never bewildered by the complexities of the world."

"When purpose is clear, every obstacle transforms into a stepping stone. Such is the immutable nature of understanding."

"Wisdom principle 80 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 94."

"The echoes of eternity remind us that character is forged in the fires of discipline."

"The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings."

"I was one those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything else where you're actually meant to not be reading, my family would frisk me and take the book away. If they didn't find it by this point in the procedure, I would be sitting over in that corner completely unnoticed just reading my book."

"A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."

"And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read."