But this payment goes well beyond my generosity, " the monk responded."Don’t say that again. Life might be listening, and give you less the next time.

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

When we first begin fighting for our dreams, we have no experience and make many mistakes. The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and get up eight times.

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

When each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.

I'm an adventurer, looking for treasure

I don't use the word 'pressure.' I use the word 'expectation.' I have very high expectations of myself. It starts with me.

Not like [Adele Dazeems] going to follow me around for the rest of my life.

But I care about the reader, and I'm trying to keep the reader's attention for as long as I can.

If the eye is constantly greeted by harmonious objects, having elegance of form and color, a standard of taste naturally grows up.

I've always been a closet jock. With exercising, the more you do it, the more you get into it. And the more you see results, the more you're pushing for the next level.

Now and then in travel, something unexpected happens that transforms the whole nature of the trip and stays with the traveler.

John McEnroe's so good. Against him, all you can do is shake hands and take a shower.

The biggest sacrifice to me is to not be in an atmosphere where I can keep writing and moving forward.

When we are high and airy hundreds say That if we hold that flight they'll leave the place, While those same hundreds mock another day Because we have made our art of common things.

Who was the blundering idiot who said 'fine words butter no parsnips'? Half the parsnips of society are served and rendered palatable with no other sauce.