Some feelings are stronger than fear: love, longing, desire.

Love is the easiest thing there is. It's the layers of doubt, fear, and expectation that make it complicated.

Missing pieces do more than complete the puzzle, they fill in an empty space.

The music never leaves. Once you have it, you can't lose it.

I was born in a library, in the fiction stacks.

The biggest mistake any of us can make is thinking that love is a feeling, an emotion. It's not that at all. It's an action.

Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing of all.

I am honored to have had two Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions made from my novels - Silver Bells and Follow the Stars Home.

You fall in love with the girl next door but married her sister.

Judgment is easy: it is black and white, as brutal as a gavel strike.

A good sailor knows everything is always changing.

All names disappear. Children should be taught that in elementary school. But we're afraid to teach them.

I believe that every particle of dust that dances in the sunbeam does not move an atom more or less than God wishes

Frst of all that I would crave as the richest of heaven's blessings would be wisdom from my Heavenly Father bestowed daily.

I'm in love with a lot of things. Some of those things love me back. And some of them don't - and one of them is Radiohead.

Photography can be perceived as the opposite of war.

I think that sacrifices of animals in the name of religion are barbarous and they degrade the name of religion.

Five thousand people in one society might do something, but five thousand societies of one member each would be a holy trouble.

At the time, the only options were playing the local county fair. Now with American Idol and younger recording artists that have come out, there is more of an opportunity.

At the end of the day, the ultimate goal is winning the ballgame.

All desire springs from a lack, which it strives continually to fill.