Happines is like mercury. Hard to hold, and when we drop it, it shatters into a million pieces. Maybe the bravest of all are those who have the courage to reach for it again.

If you want to be happy for life, love what you do.

The truth is I hate cocktail parties when the only person I know is my supposed date, and he abandons me the minute we come in the door.

When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.

The flame of inspiration needs to be encouraged. Put a glass around that small candle and protect it from discouragement or ridicule.

Writing is storytelling. No matter how you slice it, you're saying, 'Once upon a time.' That's what writing is all about.

live your life as if you may lose everything.

Approach your lives as if they were novels, with their own heroes, villains, red herrings, and triumphs.

The first four months of writing the book, my mental image is scratching with my hands through granite. My other image is pushing a train up the mountain, and it's icy, and I'm in bare feet.

A library is a path to the future--find yours there.

Funny, when you finally faced reality, it was amazing how clearly you could see things.

Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.

If all else fails, we then factor (fall) into our equation. And pray hard, someone factors (catching us) into theirs.

Good and bad lies within and without one other loses its mean and essence.

The quality of the results we get in our lives depends on the quality of the self-beliefs we hold.

we first need to get boys out for football and then the plan will gradually come into play

If you would be powerful pretend to be powerful.

Stars are the daisies that begem The blue fields of the sky.

The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late.

Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code.

... a man's plans are meant to be changed for a beautiful woman.