There's a marvelous sense of mastery that comes with writing a sentence that sounds exactly as you want it to.

Orchid hunting is a mortal occupation.

I think of myself as something of a connoisseur of procrastination, creative and dogged in my approach to not getting things done.

Living in a rural setting exposes you to so many marvelous things - the natural world and the particular texture of small-town life, and the exhilarating experience of open space.

You have to simply love writing, and you have to remind yourself often that you love it.

Libraries are what is best about us as a society: open, exciting, rich, informative, free, inclusive, engaging.

One of the very best reasons for having children is to be reminded of the incomparable joys of a snow day.

A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky, unbidden, and seems like a thing of wonder.

An ordinary life examined closely reveals itself to be exquisite and complicated and exceptional, somehow managing to be both heroic and plain.

Even after I'd published three books and had been writing full-time for twenty years, my father continued to urge me to go to law school.

I don't like hiking with convicts carrying machetes.

Have a clear plan or strategy to translate your success philosophy into desired results. Adopt an effective work ethic, with a laser-focus and requisite execution strategies to produce results.

A poor man knows the true value of money and will not dare waste it, but a rich man is extravagant and always looking for an opportunity to empty his pockets.

Mothers are irreplaceable treasure, you can always have a step-mother but never in life can you ever have another mother”.

Going to the darkest place you can to make yourself really upset and adding that with the physicality and running around, you can work yourself into hysteria that way.

We all have great ideas. No one ever says, "I've got this terrible idea."

Best is the man who thinks for himself.

Growth today is an investment for tomorrow.

The place of connection or separation in relationship to your own being, the place in your self where this occurs, is in your heart.

Gratitude is a feeling of fullness, a recognition of the heart of what we are receiving in this moment.

From the moment that you feel enthusiastic about everything, you know that you are following your heart.