What police officer would dare ticket Death's minivan?

You would be amazed by what you can give up, lose, or break, and yet still be a person who gets happy over brownies.

...handsome people are always interesting to watch. But a handsome person in crisis is riveting.

You need to grab your dream out of the sky like it's a kite and pinch the string through your fingers until you reach the spool.

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

I can't tell you how much I love Target and Costco, that kind of culture, because it's something I never felt a part of. I've always felt like a tourist because I have never fit in anywhere.

Should I just sit down, right here at carousel seven, and shake until somebody's arms are around me and they're saying, 'It's okay, I'm here, I'm here, come with me to the institute.

You are allowed to be alive. You are allowed to be somebody different. You are allowed to not say goodbye to anybody or explain a single thing to anyone, ever.

His laugh is made if porch swings and lemonade

But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.

I wouldn't want to waste any of my brain cells on forgiving if it's holding me back.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

The Four Agreements1. Be impeccable with your word.2. Don’t take anything personally.3. Don’t make assumptions.4. Always do your best.

Ten books in and the Red Stone Security series is still going strong because of you, my wonderful readers. Thank you.

Without inner change there can be no outer change. Without collective change, no change matters.

What if Jesus was the only normal person who ever lived?

I want you to believe...to believe in things that you cannot.

But how can one be warm alone?

I may not be perfect, but I'm trying.

It is a faculty of the human mind to become what it contemplates, and to act in unison with its object.

Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous.