I write about relationships and I try to create real-life characters.

You can only control your own actions. Not other people’s reactions.

A son is a son 'til he gets a wife, but a daughter is a daughter all her life.

Love and friendship. They are what make us who we are, and what can change us, if we let them.

...love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together.

Maybe the thing to do after you roll the dice-and lose-is simply pick them up and roll them again.

When you’re in love, sometimes you have to swallow your pride, and sometimes you have to keep your pride. It’s a balance. But when the relationship is right, you find the balance.

I think of how each person in a marriage owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in a shared life. That this is the only way to grow together, instead of apart.

Life's not black-and-white. Sometimes the ends justifies the means.

Although I'm sure there are plenty of tall, gorgeous, life-of-the-party guys who are also true to their wives, I happen to believe that a disproportionate number of them are cheaters.

I think it's important to try to be present with whatever it is you're doing. And if you can't be present, take a break.

One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other.

Something good about love: if you fall in it, you will not feel any pain.

Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.

I think there is a way to do things right to tread lightly on the world

I’m a Mormon. I know it. I live it. I love it.

Not long ago, when I was a student in college, just flying an airplane seemed a dream. But that dream turned into reality.

His (the theologian) basic instinct of self preservation forbids him to respect reality at any point or even to let it get a word in.

I rest their case. I'm Pro-Life.

There have been women in the past far more daring than we would need to be now, who ventured all and gained a little, but survived after all.

If your writing doesn't keep you up at night, it won't keep anyone else up either".