Fear is an inhibitor that has kept more people from fulfilling their destiny than any other one emotion.

We as authors sign a pact with our readers they'll go on reading because they trust us to play fair with them and deliver what we've promised.

Sometimes you cannot clear the past completely. You must live alongside your sorrow.

On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble;His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves;The wind it plies the saplings double, And thick on Severn snow the leaves.

It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.

Pretty sad. Pretty lonely. But that's how I prefer it? I quess? I guess. It's a good guess. It's the best quess ever.

We learn to praise God not by paying compliments but by paying attention.

I have a tremendous appetite for life; the phone rings and your whole life could change.

The desert loves me. I love the desert. It's nice to be in the heat in Africa. I love it.

The taking of vows that are not feasible or that are beyond one's capacity would betray thoughtlessness and want of balance.

The noblest exercise of the mind within doors, and most befitting a person of quality, is study.