I prayed to trees. This was easier than praying directly to God. There was nearly always a tree nearby.

Life is like a bowl of spaghetti. Every once in a while, you get a meatball.

What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones.

Man needs bread and hyacinths: one to feed the body, and one to feed the soul.

You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.

I love the way that each book -- any book -- is its own journey. You open it, and off you go. You are changed in some way, large or small, by having traveled with those characters.

Read a lot, live your life, and listen and watch, so that your mind fills up with millions of images.

Sometimes you know in your heart you love someone, but you have to go away before your head can figure it out.

You know, maybe that's all anybody wants, is to be useful. And have somebody else notice it.

Then I thought, boy, isn't that just typical? You wait and wait and wait for something, and then when it happens, you feel sad.

A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person.

You must know your part in the body of Christ and play it

God knows who you are! God knows why you are here! Don’t live a different you! Don't disappoint God!

A memory is a fine legacy to leave behind.

A story is a part of the writer's soul, told to the world.

Leaders fix things that are broken.

I do what I love to do, what I choose to do.

Muhammad Ali could take a very good punch. He was slick, he could move, he could hit, make you miss, good hand speed and combinations and one of the greatest fighters of all time in my opinion.

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

All is going well, very well, I couldn’t ask for anything better— So why do I hate my life?

Each day is an occasion to reinvent ourselves