Rain could show up at your door and teach you how to dance.

It is when we are most lost that we sometimes find our truest friends.

I learned to write from authors. I didn't know any, but I read their books.

Every person is able to add beauty, whether by growing flowers, or singing, or cooking luscious meals, or raising sweet pets. Every part of life can be art.

I want to do something important in my life, and I think that adding beauty to the world with books... really is important.

It is odd how we sometimes deny ourselves the very pleasure we have longed for and which is finally within our reach.

I love being a writer because I want to leave something here on earth to make it better, prettier, stronger.

But those with an evil heart seem to have a talent for destroying anything beautiful which is about to bloom.

In November, the trees are standing all sticks and bones. Without their leaves, how lovely they are, spreading their arms like dancers. They know it is time to be still.

When the wicked want to bring down the innocent, they aim for a loving heart.

I am so grateful to be a writer. I hope every child grows up and finds something to do that will seem important and that will seem precious. Happy living and, especially, happy playing.

They tell us that Suicide is the greatest piece of Cowardice... That Suicide is wrong

I try to cherish the moments I have, for I dread the day I get out of the tub and the wrinkles won't go away...

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can do.

The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

Just be loving. You also have to recognize that you need to take the focus off yourself and put it on your children to give them a proper start in life.

So the first reason for studying Scripture is that it is a means of spiritual growth. There is none apart from the Word. It is God's primary tool to develop you as an individual.

Don't talk to me while I'm interrupting.

Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised.

Life hath set No landmarks before us.

Even if a story has nothing to do with my life, if I can recognise something of myself in the character and think, 'Oh yeah, that's what I'd do...' yeah, that's what I look for.