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.

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.

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.

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

A limited mind will have a limited world!

Happiness is the only good, reason the only torch, justice the only worship, humanity the only religion, and love the only priest.

The search for a new personality is futile what is fruitful is the human interest the old personality can take in new activities.

I was a huge Internet junkie.

Observe what is with undivided awareness.

Well, there are always those who cannot distinguish between glitter and glamour . . . the glamour of Isadora Duncan came from her great, torn, bewildered, foolhardy soul.

Only people who suffer show the ravages of age.

Froi saw the foolishness of dreamers, and he decided he'd like to die so foolish. With a dream in his heart about the possibilities, rather than a chain of hopelessness.

There are three things, after all, that a poem must reach: the eye, the ear, and what we may call the heart or the mind. It is the most important of all to reach the heart of the reader.

Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful