Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect.

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

To achieve goals you've never achieved before, you need to start doing things you've never done before.

The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

Integrity is conforming reality to our words - in other words, keeping promises and fulfilling expectations.

Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.

Make small commitments and keep them. Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic. Be a part of the solution, not the problem.

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen.

Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

Whoever believed in Jesus Christ, shall be justified by faith in Son of God.

Getting caught up in someone else's dream is like a drug. Sometimes you have to go cold turkey.

The difference between your crazy and my crazy is that you don't think you're crazy.

I felt that, in some ways, my novels lacked heart because of the distance between me and the subject matter. But no one wants to read a book based on good health, a happy upbringing, a long marriage.

One of the mistakes I made was placing too much trust in Montesinos.

Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase in pain. Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop.

Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.

Shoot the bad guys and I'll gladly sing a tune for you.

I know the difference between black magic and white magic.

It is astonishing how many books I find there is no need for me to read at all.