Artists should be self-aware of their work and their potential places in people's lives and make their decisions accordingly.

All limitations are self-imposed.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.

The children of any nation are its future. A country, a movement, a person that does not value its youth and children does not deserve its future.

Goalkeepers need an element of insanity.

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.

I think the fakest thing in the world is to judge someone on how they look.

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

For a moment you forget how much the loss hurts. Then you remember and it buries you.

When you're passionate about something, you don't need coffee or an energy drink to get you moving.

Single ladies, the only thing we need to be rescued from is the notion that we need to be rescued.

I have had the opportunity to become acquainted with many wonderful people from many walks of life. I have known rich and poor, famous and modest, wise and otherwise.

When I write my books, actually I'm known for very logical rule-based magic systems. I write with one foot in fantasy and one foot in science fiction.

When I shut off the verbal, I like to escape into the visual.

Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.

Our age is one of guided missiles and unguided men.

History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy

A dimwit thinks nothing is funny unless it's mean.

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.