Voyaging great distances -- through forests, from island to island, across plains and into the mountains -- is all about finding ourselves.

Your life is a blank, and you're barely a shade across it.

Hate misleads, fear distorts and love blinds.

To the discovered, the discoverer can be a god.

At the heart of any poor soul not at one with the Force, there is only void.

I like to think I'm positive and optimistic about things generally, but what I write does tend towards the darker end of the spectrum.

Love is harsh, and it consumes. And more than anything, it demands sacrifice.

The Force is neither light nor dark, master nor slave, but a balance between extremes.

Nature is a big influence on my work. That's where the cosmic element comes in, an awareness of the relevance of what we do as a species, why we do it, and its implications.

If you do not fear God, then fear your dreams, because they're how He talks to you.

Dreams are life, real life, not simply reflections. Dreams are honest.

If you can love yourself deeply, you will never feel alone.

If I ever figured out how to go back in time, I'd tell my nine-year-old self to run the other way when a gnome showed up in her room promising a life of magic and adventure.

I don't want to see the uncut version of anything.

Aaron Rodgers, starting quarterback - that just has a good ring to it.

Being human means losing everything we love best in the world," she murmured as she released me. "But would you ask to be anything else?

I am so pleased with my golf course. I am to say that it's the best I've ever seen it - without equivocation.

I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

Note to self: If you can't hear God when you pray, shut up.

When I'm walking along in the street, I always feel that around the corner,there is something wonderful waiting for me. That's my attitude.