It is odd how we sometimes deny ourselves the very pleasure we have longed for and which is finally within our reach.

It is when we are most lost that we sometimes find our truest friends.

I learned to write from authors. I didn't know any, but I read their books.

Every person is able to add beauty, whether by growing flowers, or singing, or cooking luscious meals, or raising sweet pets. Every part of life can be art.

I want to do something important in my life, and I think that adding beauty to the world with books... really is important.

I love being a writer because I want to leave something here on earth to make it better, prettier, stronger.

But those with an evil heart seem to have a talent for destroying anything beautiful which is about to bloom.

In November, the trees are standing all sticks and bones. Without their leaves, how lovely they are, spreading their arms like dancers. They know it is time to be still.

When the wicked want to bring down the innocent, they aim for a loving heart.

I am so grateful to be a writer. I hope every child grows up and finds something to do that will seem important and that will seem precious. Happy living and, especially, happy playing.

Writing stories has given me the power to change things I could not change as a child. I can make boys into doctors. I can make fathers stop drinking. I can make mothers stay.

Words are great, but actions speak louder!

Something ... made him feel small, not in the way of orphans or beggars or children, but in a good way. In the way of souls.

The processed food industry hijacked our palates by using three highly addictive weapons -- sugar, salt and wheat.

Tracy had never been so conscious of the sky above the earth, the dangerous clouds that gathered there, the way humans lived beneath such grandeur and threat every moment of their lives.

Fear is just faith in the wrong person.

It's not whether you fall or make a mistake, it's what you do when you fall. And I say you stand up. You keep standing up. It's not how many times you fall, it's how many times you stand up.

[Wendy Davis is] ruled by a demon of murder.

Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose.

Praying is what confirms our true belief that we cannot succeed without God, and its absence confirms the exact opposite.

If someone tells you to do something for money, tell them to go to hell.