Clarity is often found in stillness.

All nights end, and all storms clear. The only storms that last are those within your own soul.

We best teach what we ourselves have learned.

The wise man understands his weakness and seeks to find a lesson from it. The fool lets it control and destroy him.

I really do enjoy getting out to meet my readers. Writing is such a solitary business, it's gratifying to thank folks in person and really connect as human beings and not just words on a screen.

Fear makes people do cruel things, things they'll be ashamed of later

It's an old and honored tradition for war heroes to be promoted to important offices, whether or not they're suited to it

It was never a big leap from "unfamiliar" to "suspected

You're crazy, ' I say.'Aye, ' Logan says. 'Crazy about you.

In geometry, as in nature, the circle is the archetypal shape of wholeness and inclusion. It is an effective shape for nonprofits or community-focused efforts.

You just have to start putting one foot in front of the other, making an effort to get healthy every day.

One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since.

When I did play, I tried to make the most of it.

I knew a woman who went about bragging of her troubles, so, of course, she always had something to brag about.

If you drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will soon find a way back.

You couldn't have it if you DID want it.

A satyagrahi would neither retaliate nor would he submit to the criminal, but seek to cure him by curing himself.

A garden is to be a world unto itself, it had better make room for the darker shades of feeling as well as the sunny ones.