The usual way - through a long series of rejections, revising my manuscripts, and kept trying again and again. Finally I was fortunate enough to find a good agent.

Some things in life are worth waiting for.

If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.

Lust is temporary, romance can be nice, but love is the most important thing of all. Because without love, lust and romance will always be short-lived.

A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.

I am endlessly busy, bringing up five young kids, and trying to keep up with the three older ones. I still spend most of my life driving car pools.

Sometimes, if you aren't sure about something, you just have to jump off the bridge and grow your wings on the way down.

We are always better than before when those we love inflict wounds upon us.

Sing Me no songs tell me no tales cry me no tears, but remember me kindly.

I did it at night because I loved it. I never did it to make money, as a job. I just did it because I had to.

Things work out the way they're meant to

Faith is not blind when you consistently take the right actions to reveal it.

The fragrance of the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

And to get that much talent in the show—and to keep it constant and consistent—I think is a remarkable feat.

Most civilized lives are measured out with coffee spoons.

Never tell the box-office man that you can't hear well or he will sell you a seat where you can't see either.

I'm addicted to chocolate. I used to snort cocoa.

Those who give of themselves rarely regret it.

Nothing's impossible for Rickey. You don't have enough fingers and toes to count out Rickey.

The Christian life is the life of the Lord Jesus Christ lived two thousand years ago, lived now by Him in you!