Criticizing others is a dangerous thing, not so much because you may make mistakes about them, but because you may be revealing the truth about yourself.

Only afterward did the guilt set in--the guilt that for a few minutes he let himself stop feeling guilty.

You give up a lot when you enter the years of parenting. It's a sacrifice.

The one thing with stress is, you've got to keep your focus on what you can do, not what happened to you.

There are three stages of man: he believes in Santa Claus; he does not believe in Santa Claus; he is Santa Claus.

When you love what you do, you tend to work harder anyway

Life for the Christian is a dialogue with God.

People ridiculously overvalue aesthetics and beauty when evaluating products. It's one of the reasons iPods, and, for that matter, Keanu Reeves, are so successful.

Do you know why I left America, Lidewij? So that I would never again have to encounter Americans." "But you are an American." "Incurably so, it seems.

True grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done.

My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist.