I really care about my readers. I care about anyone who reads my books.

I live in a village where people still care about each other, largely.

One of the things that makes a dead leaf fall to the ground is the bud of the new leaf that pushes it off the limb.

Easter is never deserved.

Phillipians 4:13 for Pete's sake!

Love is an endless act of forgiveness.

There may be circumstances in this life that God uses to keep bringing us back to Him, looking for His grace.

In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder.

So many people don't know that God loves them. They feel, 'Why would God love me? Why would He be interested in me?

Loving can be hard. Sometimes we don't feel loving, but it isn't all about feeling. Very often it is about will. Practice that if you can.

My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.

Some cats are angry at being called cats. To achieve peace with them, never call them by their real name

I've seen some of my favorite actors give bad performances, and I have to tell myself that failure is a part of success.

I can pretty much say all of us know when 'Downton' is going to end. This is a show with a finite life.

Absence is the enemy of love and the friend of friendship.

Everyone has egos, and you want to come out on top. You have to pick yourself up and go at it again.

I've got more than enough for my needs [for social life in Moscow], let's put it that way.

Questions are like the knocks of beggarmen, and should not be minded.

I want you to know that farmers are not going to be secondary thoughts to a Bush administration. They will be in the forethought of our thinking.

If we love God's fame and are committed to magnifying His name above all things, we cannot be indifferent to world missions.

Strike with the soul, and you will never miss.