“The summit is believed to be the object of the climb. But its true objectthe joy of livingis not in the peak itself, but in the adversities encountered on the way up. There are valleys, cliffs, str...”

“It's interesting, isn't it? Being in the world.”

“Her only weapons were her tears.”

“The greatest happiness of life was to stand at the difficult border between success and failure.”

“If a man wanted to put the entire universe in his breast, he couldn't do it with his chest stuck out.”

“A day in a mans life is constructed according to whether he accepts or rejects flashes of inspiration.”

“Then love knew it was called love. And when I lifted my eyes to your name, suddenly your heart showed me my way”

“I am intrigued by the smile upon your face, and the sadness within your eyes”

“The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.”

“Somebody is observing my writings, I know that.That's one reason why I keep reading and writing.”

“Truth is always right, observing it guarantees us victory in life.”

“Somebody is observing my writings, I know that.That's one reason why I keep reading and writing.”

“With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.”

“Then Cassie told her story. The feeling was like gathering up everything she's ever done or felt or known up to that moment and tying it into a ball and pitching it with all her might as far away a...”

“Every woman needs secrets,' her mother said with a smile then, her eyes meeting Sally's in the rearview mirror. 'Remember that when you're old like me, pumpkin, because the world has a way of makin...”