Growth

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

The only way to deal with fear is to face it head on.

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Writing becomes an act of choosing, a sequence of acts, an uncertain journey. One knows, in writing, that every word is a first step, a lesson in humility.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Empires inevitably grow to the point it is no longer manageable due to corrupt leadership and military spending.

I am enriched by my convent, by the present, by the future, by Italy, by England.

One always begins by imitating.

I am my own muse, I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better.

Perfection is the child of time.

Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.

I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

The only love that matters is the love that pushes you beyond self and language into some other sea of possibility.

There is no better advice to a writer than to be willing to write on different subjects, in different languages, different genres and different modes of consciousness.