I honestly believe that people of my generation despise authenticity, mostly because they're all so envious of it.

Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.

If rain is God crying, I think God is drunk and his girlfriend just slept with Zeus.

Within these strangely specific conditions, everything is perfect. We are perfect.

When you're looking for a relationship, the process weakens you. you feel you have to bear with whatever the other person wants. Each of the people I have met has made this a little more clear.

One may tolerate a world of demons for the sake of an angel.

Prosperity without God is like committing suicide.

True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found.

It is not on the pinnacle of success and ease where men and women grow most. It is often down in the valley of heartache and disappointment and reverses where men and women grow.

You need a relationship with Jesus, and I had never heard that before. So when my mom told me about that, I said, "Okay, let me try this." And so I did.

You know, there are those writers who work at writing every day. I'm not one of those guys. I tend to work at varying levels of intensity, based on the amount of time and energy I have available.

Engage your fans and turn your fans into your community. Realize that we all have failures and can turn those failures into successes through tenacity and through being open to changing.

It is sometimes hard to know what Sarah Palin means, just on a day to day basis. Sometimes it is hard to follow what she is talking about.

Gloom is but a shadow of a cloud passing by