If you jump to conclusions, you make terrible landings.

I'm the only one who can stop me.. I'm the one who's been sitting at the stoplight all these years, waiting for the light to turn green.

Writing is my shelter. I don't hide behind the words; I use them to dig inside my heart to find the truth.

Pay attention to the things that agitate you. It will tell you a lot about yourself.

It's amazing how we can make ourselves believe what we want to.

People like to run their mouths.

Writing is the only place I can be myself and not feel judged.

Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.

As a writer, you get to bring attention to something without preaching. I don't believe in being didactic. So if you dramatize something, you automatically bring attention to it if people read it.

I'm more interested in interpersonal relationships - between lovers families, siblings. That's why I write about how we treat each other.

Folks want to glow, to leave their worries and dead skin behind.

The less you know, the less your children can learn from you, the more you know, the more they can also learn from you..

All is pattern, all life, but we can't always see the pattern when we're part of it.

Sometimes,' she said, 'it takes a woman to bring out the best in a man.

Every man has a House of Lords in his own head. Fears, prejudices, misconceptions - those are the peers and they are hereditary.

So in the path of love - rather than pulling our willpower together, using our discrimination, or working - we just cry inwardly.

The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.

When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting.

You have a real life if and only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits.

Explore this next great frontier where the boundaries between work and higher purpose are merging into one, where doing good really is good for business.

First you draw what you see. Next, you draw what you know, and only then will you know what it is that you see.