Suffering is nothing by itself. But suffering shared with the passion of Christ is a wonderful gift, the most beautiful gift, a token of love.

A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy.

Until we become the change we seek, the change we seek will never come.

For me, the romantic comedies I love are the ones that pay homage to the genre, but also find their ways to twist it and tweak it.

I never listen to music when I'm writing.

Is it not a sad thing that after all Christ's love to us, we should repay it with lukewarm love to Him?

Music survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance.

If things are going well I can easily spend twelve hours a day writing, but not writing writing, just thinking and revising and taking a comma out and putting it back in.

Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.

Every achievement, big or small, begins in your mind.

Counting the ones I've co-edited, I guess about 28 or 29 [books I've written].

I have a feeling of reverence about my father being in his 80s - a feeling that I want to whisper, take soft steps, not intrude too much. He's like a stately old cathedral to me now.