I always say, don't be a Christian, be Christ-like. Don't be a Muslim, be Mohammed-like. Be Buddha-like. Emulate these great spiritual Masters and what they were teaching.

Our intention creates our reality.

If you believe it will work out , you'll see opportunities. If you believe it won't you will see obstacles.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out, because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

If it excites you, if it makes you feel good, it's God speaking to you.

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.

Assumptions close doors. Intrigue opens them.

Then I reminded myself that all intelligent children suffer bad dreams.

Question marks are shaped like hooks for a reason: they will hook the reader and drag them deeper into the story

It's not a morbid thing, but I think I've never been afraid of death, which is maybe why I love writing about it.

Evil is simple and empty. Evil has no mysterious depths. We stare into a dark hole and fill it with our fears, but it is only a hole.

Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.

The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and ignorant believe to be liberty.

I don't have all the facts. And I might misremember. As a matter of fact, after I finished Winter Journal, I realized that I'd gotten someone's name wrong.

I'd much rather do an obviously commercial writing project than get a day job.

Where the grass is greener, the water bill is bigger.