Create a world in front of your readers where they can taste, smell, touch, hear, see, and move. Else they are likely going to move on to another book.

There are things in life that science will never be able to see. We have to rely on what has been passed from our ancestors, generation to generation.

Availability of knowledge is only next to prevalence of stupidity in its overwhelming abundance.

Knowledge that can make miracles happen needs to be guarded carefully. If it falls into the wrong hands, miracles become disasters in no time.

It was a time when a degree was expected but not much respected.

A man wants too many things before marriage, but only peace after it.

Such delicacies are relationships.

No great soul, as they say, lives for very long. Because God desperately wants all the great people near him.

When the soul heals, the issues of the body disappear like they never happened.

A meeting is a collective tacit confession of participants’ unwillingness to work.

All the progress in science can’t be used to build a smell receptor as capable as the one that a true leader possesses—to smell trouble or just something fishy.

There will be days that I don't think we'll know how to survive. But we will, because we have each other.

To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth.

If you're not worshiping God on Monday the way you [did] the day before, perhaps you're not worshiping Him at all.

Maturity is the ability to live in peace with that which we cannot change.

There are very serious forms of, and reactions to, sibling victimization.

I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.

Life is much different from the days when there were lilies in my mother’s garden, and all my secrets fit into a paper cup.

Many times I feel different like a different person.

My dream has always been to suspend myself in space when I write, and lying horizontal in bed is the closest to doing that.

I never say goodbye, I say, “au-revoir.” Goodbye is so final. Au-revoir means I will see you again.