A library is a path to the future--find yours there.

If you want to be happy for life, love what you do.

The truth is I hate cocktail parties when the only person I know is my supposed date, and he abandons me the minute we come in the door.

When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.

The flame of inspiration needs to be encouraged. Put a glass around that small candle and protect it from discouragement or ridicule.

Writing is storytelling. No matter how you slice it, you're saying, 'Once upon a time.' That's what writing is all about.

Happines is like mercury. Hard to hold, and when we drop it, it shatters into a million pieces. Maybe the bravest of all are those who have the courage to reach for it again.

live your life as if you may lose everything.

Approach your lives as if they were novels, with their own heroes, villains, red herrings, and triumphs.

The first four months of writing the book, my mental image is scratching with my hands through granite. My other image is pushing a train up the mountain, and it's icy, and I'm in bare feet.

Funny, when you finally faced reality, it was amazing how clearly you could see things.

Being political doesn’t only or principally mean caring what party wins the next election

Every honest man lives for himself. Every man worth calling a man lives for himself. The one who doesn't - doesn't live at all.

Retributive justice is one that says clobber him or clobber her because they clobbered me. So it emphasizes punishment.

Without Christ there would be no Christmas and without Christ there can be no fulness of JOY

If you put people in a corner, you see what their character really is.

As great a store Have we of books as bees of herbs or more.

Real sacrifice comes from self sacrifice.

Anyone can take a false step And fall forever, Everyone is different. Where are they now, all those lost souls?

So precious life is! Even to the old, the hours are as a miser's coins!