To me, there's no greater reward than being around people you care about and can be present with.

I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.

I think that anybody that smiles automatically looks better.

I love the rebelliousness of snail mail, and I love anything that can arrive with a postage stamp. There's something about that person's breath and hands on the letter.

You'll never have any mental muscle if you don't have any heavy stuff to pick up.

It's always refreshing to step into another time.

Blessings come in disguise. And challenges can be a blessing.

I think the secret to happiness is having a Teflon soul. Whatever comes your way, you either let it slide or you cook with it.

I've found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world.

I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel.

I would say chemistry between two people is very powerful. You have to fight to keep it, but if you don't have it, you can't manufacture it.

My traumatic experience was life changing

If you feel afraid of magic, then you've been enchanted.

An atheist waving a cross at a vampire was a truly pitiful sight.

Obedience is an act of faith disobedience is the result of unbelief.

Traditional marriage is what should be sanctioned.

Ah! dear friend, you little know the possibilities which are in you.

Leadership is about three-fourths show-the-way and about one-fourth follow-up.

Only after several years of training did I come to realize that the deepest purpose of the martial arts is to serve as a vehicle for personal spiritual development.

There was a time when all dark-skinned people were called Ethiopians, for the Greeks referred to Africa as, 'The Land Of The Burnt-Face People.'

When you're trying to create a career as a writer, a little delusional thinking goes a long way.