What you value at the highest level needs to be in alignment with your partner or you will have conflict.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.

There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.

A true gentleman is one that apologizes anyways, even though he has not offended a lady intentionally. He is in a class all of his own because he knows the value of a woman's heart.

A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.

The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.

When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, "What was it that you wanted and why didn't you fight for it?

The most introspective of souls are often those that have been hurt the most.

When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to see all the doors God has open in front of you.

If he can't handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain, and instead seeing a person's soul.

Few love to hear the sins they love to act.

You, know, the only thing I can be is a writer. I'm absolutely unprepared for anything else. When you've lived the kind of life I have, you are good for nothing. Only writing can save you.

I am a product of two worlds and each world has given me a reason to love, be kind and grow strong.

In books, as in life, there are no second chances. On second thought: its the next work, still to be written, that offers the second chance.

There are a couple of projects that are sort of on the plate; I haven't closed any of them yet. I'm trying to figure out which one is going to be the best one for me.

Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.

Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this.

Being able to take a traditional cable-television subscriber and give them new widget type applications to me is huge.

A woman's mink coat represents the sacrifice of a lot of little animals, including her husband.

Prayer may just be the most powerful tool mankind has.” ~Blink