Find your best time of the day for writing and write. Don't let anything else interfere. Afterwards it won't matter to you that the kitchen is a mess.

Editing is everything. Cut until you can cut no more.

A story needs rhythm. Read it aloud to yourself. If it doesn't spin a bit of magic, it's missing something.

Trust your reader. Not everything needs to be explained. If you really know something, and breathe life into it, they'll know it too.

Believe in the reader and they can connect the dots, if you succeed breathe life into the story

A wonderful book . . . Full of sadness, hope, and ultimately love. I found it very moving.

Life belongs to optimists. Pessimists are just viewers. Making it real, starts with our attitude.

Once you turn something into something, its universal usage is over.

Thirty years ago, the Pandora's box of the Internet wasn't yet a fact of life, and celebrities inhabited a more remote, hard-to-reach plane.

Mission is not primarily an activity of the church, but an attribute of God.

I love acting, but I want to explore other things.

Nobody looks at the moon in the afternoon, and this is the moment when it would most require our attention, since its existence is still in doubt.

There is no justice in bureaucracy for the individual, for bureaucracy caters only to itself. One cannot practice the same bureaucracy as one is fighting against.

Compassion can shoulder the suffering of the entire world without feeling the slightest bit of pain.

Radio is the playground of coincidence.

I don't try to focus on anything that doesn't affect me personally and how I go out there every single day. I'm just going to continue to work hard and focus on what I can control.