Nothing comes of severity if there be no leanings towards a change of heart. And if there be natural leanings towards a change of heart, what need for severity?

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work; teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean.

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason; some come to learn and others come to teach.

Let your dream devour your life, not your life devour your dream.

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams.

I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.

Worldliness is an inner attitude that puts self at the center of life instead of God.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

I think there comes a time in every persons life where they just need to go to the darkest, most dismal place.

I'm not anorexic. I'm from Texas. Are there people from Texas that are anorexic? I've never heard of one. And that includes me.

There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

I want to play on the PGA Tour.

Writing fiction means putting a lot of what you believe about the world at risk, because you have to follow your characters.

These are the evils which result from gossiping habits.

I'm content where I am. I know I am going to be a Cowboy for life.