It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.

Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.

Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by nature.

Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.

No matter how much we love a book, the experience of reading it isn't complete until we can give it to someone who will love it as much as we do

Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words.

You are always someones favorite unfolding story

Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.

I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.

There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness.

Sometimes not having any idea where we’re going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.

Whoever is godly, loves good.

Musicians don't retire they stop when there's no more music in them.

Everyone suffers some injustice in life, and what better motivation than to help others not suffer in the same way.

I love having my hair and makeup done for red carpets, but to have that done every day would be exhausting.

As we age, the bright light of youth either burns out or burns stronger - it's our choice.

As entertainers, you're afraid [about] loss of income - but if other people start going to jail for free speech, then we've lost this great thing that America is, and I'd like to keep that.

You cannot be in the presence of God and be bored at the same time. For that matter, you cannot be in the will of God and be bored at the same time.

If somebody praises you; change the topic!

The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart.

But really, where leadership is born and where leadership is really bred is.