Life is so extraordinary. Wonderful surprises are just around the most unexpected corners.

It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive. Arrival often brings nothing but a sense of desolation and disappointment.

Writing is work, but it's also a compulsion, and once you get your characters on paper, you can't abandon them. You have to respond to them.

It was good, and nothing good is truly lost. It stays part of a person, becomes part of their character. So part of you goes everywhere with me. And part of me is yours, forever

Happiness is making the most of what you have, and riches is making the most of what you've got.

She put out her hand and touched his forearm, as she would have touched some piece of porcelain or sculpture, just for the sheer animal pleasure of feeling its shape and curve beneath her fingertips.

The greatest gift a parent can leave a child is that parent's own independence.

And the wicked thing is, that when we're really upset, we always take it out on the people who are closest and whom we love the most.

Things happen they way they're meant to. There's a pattern and a shape to everything...Nothing happens without a reason...Nothing is impossible...(Page 180).

There's a war on. We don't know how anything's going to end. We just have to grasp each fleeting moment of joy as it whizzes by.

I wasn't good enough. I had a little talent but not enough. There is nothing more discouraging than having just a little talent.

Rise to the challenge of bringing your dreams to life! Do not be discouraged by resistance, be nourished by it. Success is the experience of rising to the level of your true greatness.

Women are like locked diaries that men expect to read like open books.

Be determined enough to live for your dreams.

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is the example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

The sound of the rain needs no translation.

The true sin against the Holy Ghost is ingratitude.

I think I speak for the guy who is just s a regular guy who says yo I don't wanna go to an expensive restaurant.

I'm right here. This is who I really am. I'm not pretending.

The ironic humor comes from the distance between what we understand about ourselves and what is truly going on in ourselves.

I don't often get a chance to have a frying pan in the show.