Be encouraged. Your heart is writing a poem on the world and it's being turned into a thousand songs.

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.

I have sometimes wondered if the greatest desire of man is to be known and loved anyway.

And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it.

What I believe is not what I say I believe; what I believe is what I do.

You can't tell a good story without conflict - the story can't be beautiful or meaningful. We're taught to run from conflict, and it's robbing us of some really good stories.

If we knew how much God loved us and was for us, we’d talk to Him all day long.

How disappointing would it be get to heaven and find out God created life to be enjoyed while all we did was worry?

There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing.

I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me

People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen.

After failure, You must resolve to do whatever the object of your resolution is.

What an incredible drug fear is.

I usually am thinking about my next book the second I put the last dot on the previous one that I turn in.

The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.

I do give them to you," he announced. "Of my free will. Because this is my sword." He laid a hand on Arisa's shoulder. "And Weasle is my shield. What you hold are only pieces of iron.

So I think I know a little bit about winning, if there's ever a concern.

I do play drums when I'm on tour.

Humor is, by its nature, more truthful than factual.

Without patience and the skill of a craftsman, even the greatest talent is wasted.

All our Western thought is founded on this repulsive pretence that pain is the proper price of any good thing.