I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.

Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.

Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs.

Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.

A photograph it a souvenir of a memory. It is not a moment. It is the looking at the photograph that becomes the moment. Your own moment.

The words that matter always stay.

motif, n. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you.

It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

You have to believe there are kisses and laughs and risks worth taking.

Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.

I have come to discover that the reason why they are so wealthy and prosperous is not because they were lying on the couch all day.

Don't say God is silent when your Bible is closed. Open it and read it. God will speak.

Unfinished business always comes back to haunt you, and a man who swears he'll love you forever isn't finished with you until he's done.

I think it's easy to stop smoking; it's just hard not to commit a felony after you stop.

To handle a hard situation, try a soft answer.

How horrible it is to have so many people killed! And what a blessing that one cares for none of them!

I keep hitting [Escape], but I'm still here! --Unknown, but used by Karen Chance in "Hunt the Moon

Half the world's work is done by hopeless neurotics.

Where there is faith there is an awareness of holiness.

I write because I'm a writer. It is rather like cooking: to make something out of the raw material at hand.