The ordinary is the divine.

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.

Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn't matter.

To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.

If your best friend truly is the person who knows you completely and loves you anyway, wouldn't that be your mother?

Conflict avoidance often causes greater conflict.

The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.

It irritated me that my fans kept wanting me to retread old ground.

Give yourself the freedom to explore the possibility of life without limits. Goals are dreams with deadlines, a means to an end but not the ultimate purpose of life.

People like to pigeonhole you.

Donald Trump is speaking on behalf of the White House, of the executive branch of the United States. Credibility matters.

As a kid, I think people would have described me more as a goofball, or being energetic. But I always loved parodies; I loved spoofing things.

When we fully realize who God is, we learn that each of us is a child of the King!

I don't consciously try to be a role model, so I don't know if I am or not. That's for other people to decide.