Heaven is neither here nor there to me. Everywhere and nowhere. Just not in between, But I believe in Heaven.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

He preacheth patience that never knew pain.

Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.

I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.

I never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened.

What the world need is people who have come alive.

Proud parents to two children Grandparents to five more Who visit the "Harper Bakery" It's Gran's cooking they all adore

I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is.

Of course there’s something there; unfortunately, there’s always something ‘there.’ Something you will one day be sorry you saw.

It should not be a child's only goal to become the best player in the world. That would be a bad, a harmful attitude.

Great things come out of being hungry and cold. Once you're pampered, you get lazy.