Reluctance to begin is quick to befriend procrastination. . . .

You make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing.

A girl expecting rescue never learns to save herself. Even with the means, she will find her courage wanting.

Memory is a cruel mistress with whom we all must learn to dance.

It's a terrible thing, isn't it, the way we throw people away?

In each man's heart there lies a hole. A dark abyss of need, the filling of which takes precedence over all else.

His words had tossed the book that was her life into the air and the pages had been blown into disarray, could never be put back together to tell the same story.

It was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the possibilities of the new season.

There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.

But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors.

She felt like a fictional character who'd escaped the book in which her creator had carefully and kindly trapped her, taken a pair of scissors to her outline and leaped, free.

God knows your every need.

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

I was well beaten myself, and I am better for it.

To my parents, writing seemed precarious and not the best idea.

Land!” shouted Thomas. “Is there food?” asked Tubby Ted.

I'm sort of a traditionalist usually. I love old soul music and The Beatles; I realized I was sort of trying to make music sometimes that fit into an era that's gone.

As a kid, I always thought the TV was a magic box in the corner of the room.

The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love.

We really think health savings accounts were kind of invented in Indiana.

Your attention has to be on your Spirit.