Life is a tragedy full of joy.

Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.

There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.

First drafts are for learning what your story is about.

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.

The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.

The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course

We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.

The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.

I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.

In those things toward which we exerted our best endeavors we succeeded.

Don’t ask for miracles. You are the living embodiment of all the miracles in the world.

It wasn't a kiss that changed the frog, but the fact that a young girl looked beneath warts and slime and believed she saw a prince. So he became one.

A writer or an author must always be the no.1 fan of his/her book.

The more you try to crush your true nature, the more it will control you. Be what you are. No one who really loves you will stop.

Evident in every small act of kindness, it was love as a verb. Love that made me feel more complete than I had ever felt in my glamorous, Jimmy Choo filled past.

I see life as both a gift and a responsibility. My responsibility is to use what God has given me to help His people in need.

Fishes that tipple in the deep, Know no such liberty.

You know, when you're an actor, you want to go to Hollywood. When you're a musician, you want to go to Nashville.

The near absence of bargains works as a reverse indicator for us. When we find there is little worth buying, there is probably much worth selling.