I publish six books a year now, which is very exciting. But it keeps me into my typewriter at all times! Now that my children have grown up, I'm with my typewriter 20 hours a day.

Some things in life are worth waiting for.

If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.

Lust is temporary, romance can be nice, but love is the most important thing of all. Because without love, lust and romance will always be short-lived.

A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.

I am endlessly busy, bringing up five young kids, and trying to keep up with the three older ones. I still spend most of my life driving car pools.

Sometimes, if you aren't sure about something, you just have to jump off the bridge and grow your wings on the way down.

We are always better than before when those we love inflict wounds upon us.

Sing Me no songs tell me no tales cry me no tears, but remember me kindly.

I did it at night because I loved it. I never did it to make money, as a job. I just did it because I had to.

Things work out the way they're meant to

Every other author may aspire to praise the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach.

It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.

The only real antidote to worry or problems is systematic, purposeful action in the direction of your goals.

Obeying orders just to obey is the mark of a person who has ceased to think. Remember, it is better to suffer for doing what is right rather than for doing what is wrong.

I like to write about certain things that if they are not written about are not going to exist.

I've been wearing Wrangler jeans for more than a decade now, all the way back to when I first started playing clubs in my teens in Georgia.

People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don't dream at all.

I desperately want to see the day today and do the best I can not miss a shred of sunlight. It'll be over before I know it.

This fanaticism is what feeds terrorism. And this is precisely why Muslims must play an active role in opposing hate sermons and incitement to terrorism and extremism in their mosques.

When you speak of role models, when we talk to our kids, everybody is a role model, everyone, just as you look at a Michael Jordan to be the terrific athlete he is.