May love fill your heart, compassion guide your mind, faith rule your soul.

Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

Happiness is something that multiplies when it is divided.

Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly

Don't forget: Beautiful sunsets need cloudy Skies.

There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.

The Warrior knows about the "waterfall effect".

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

Hide your craziness behind a beautiful smile. That's all you need.

Life without a friend is death without a witness.

The direst foe of courage is the fear itself, not the object of it; and the man who can overcome his own terror is a hero and more.

We are all participants in the marvelous.

I decided that if my work contained what I could identify as a likeness to other work, I would remove it.

I do not plan my fiction any more than I normally plan woodland walks; I follow the path that seems most promising at any given point, not some itinerary decided before entry.

And the ultimate thing is, I may not be the expert that some people are on foreign policy, but I did stay in a Holiday Inn Express last night.

My parents immigrated from Italy and spent 40 days and 40 stinking nights on a boat so we didn't have to eat things like gizzards.

I was always just kind of obsessed with guitar, even before I started playing.

Communication is to relationships what breath is to life.

I make no apology for preoccupying myself with architecture, television, conceptual art, restaurants and Jane Asher's cakes.