Divorce transforms habit into drama.

The point is not to pay back kindness but to pass it on.

Each of us will have to make the choices that allow us to be the largest versions of ourselves.

It's like my whole world is coming undone, but when I write, my pencil is a needle and thread, and I'm stitching the scraps back together.

A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart.

I write to find out what I am thinking. I write to find out who I am. I write to understand things.

A book does not discriminate against any reader. All are welcome at the table of literature.

Don't plan it all. Let life surprise you a little.

Everyone needs a strong sense of self. It is our base of operations for everything that we do in life.

I admit that for me love goes deeper than the struggle, or maybe what I mean is, love is the deeper struggle.

Every writer can tell you that a book is only truly alive when it finds passionate readers who bring it alive in their imaginations.

Why are you wearing a T-shirt under your other T-shirt?" Livvy asked."In case one of them is stolen, " Marked said, as it were entirely normal.

If we would answer the question of the existence of the Evil then we would not be sinners, we could make something else responsible.

Negative people talk and your dreams begin to wither off. But they begin to sprout in the fragrance of hope when they find a new soil! Change your environment!

may my faith always beat the end of the daylike a hummingbird...returningto its favorite flower.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

People of great power wield great power, but people of lesser power or people who have fallen out of power go to jail without adequate evidence, or their bodies are found in the trunks of cars.

I am loving a lot. I am just loving and loving and loving. A lot of people around me really see a love in me and a love in themselves.

Why accept failure when success is free?

We should try to create the society each of us would want if we didn't know in advance who we'd be.

Always remember that your personality is your big asset. Do not try to emulate another person. Real personality comes from the heart.