I think the responsibility of running a huge business, which happens if you become a successful designer, probably makes you more careful.

Orchid hunting is a mortal occupation.

I think of myself as something of a connoisseur of procrastination, creative and dogged in my approach to not getting things done.

Living in a rural setting exposes you to so many marvelous things - the natural world and the particular texture of small-town life, and the exhilarating experience of open space.

You have to simply love writing, and you have to remind yourself often that you love it.

Libraries are what is best about us as a society: open, exciting, rich, informative, free, inclusive, engaging.

One of the very best reasons for having children is to be reminded of the incomparable joys of a snow day.

A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky, unbidden, and seems like a thing of wonder.

An ordinary life examined closely reveals itself to be exquisite and complicated and exceptional, somehow managing to be both heroic and plain.

There's a marvelous sense of mastery that comes with writing a sentence that sounds exactly as you want it to.

Even after I'd published three books and had been writing full-time for twenty years, my father continued to urge me to go to law school.

Life's journey is one big path with series of events. All these events are connected.

When you win, the rules change, and you find you’ve lost

My room is so quiet and empty it hurts.

If we want to give grace to our children, then first we must be willing to receive it ourselves from God.

God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's place and relation towards his fellow-men.

Never place a period where God has placed a comma.

The call of God creates sight in us. It's the work of God in our hearts to awaken us before his word.

We cannot avoid growing old; but we can avoid growing cold.

Politics is not a science, as the professors are apt to suppose. It is an art.

A man is what he is on his knees, and no more.