When you believe you reflect what is holy and good, you can see more that is good in every stage of your life. (319)

In this moment, there is plenty of time. In this moment, you are precisely as you should be. In this moment, there is infinite possibility. (17)

Sometimes you’ll hear, ‘People don’t change.’ This is true more often than it ought to be, but listen again: ‘People don’t change.’ It says ‘don’t, ’ not ‘can’t.’ (316)

You'll get younger not from what you read but from what you apply in your life. (192)

It stands to reason that anyone who learns to live well will die well. The skills are the same: being present in the moment, and humble, and brave, and keeping a sense of humor. (361)

Did your mom ever tell you, ‘If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything’? She was right–and talking nicely also applies when you’re talking to yourself, even inside your head. (339)

When you can see your life in retrospect, the romanticism of how good things once were gives way to the reality that positives and negatives comprise every day and every decade. (235)

It’s probably unfair to expect the world at large, or even most people, to see us for all we are. It is essential, however, that we see ourselves for all we are. (413)

Life has its rhythm ad we have ours. They’re designed to coexist in harmony, so that when we do what is ours to do and otherwise let life be, we garner acceptance and serenity. (285)

Just because you’re grown up and then some doesn’t mean settling into the doldrums of predictability. Surprise people. Surprise yourself. (281)

A twenty-three-year-long study in Ohio determined that people who saw growing older as something positive lived a whopping seven and a half years longer than those who didn’t. (356)

With strong spirit, you will survive any situation.

Love is the key to diversity

Overload 'em with information an' they'll kill yeh jus' to simplify things.

Nothing exciting ever happens to me.

My hope is that my novels reflect the reality of a world where good and evil exist, imperfect people make mistakes, but a perfect Heavenly Father offers forgiveness and second chances.

If aught I have said is truth, that truth shall reveal itself in a clearer voice, and in words more kin to your thoughts.

How did this or that change my music? The only time I have to think about it is when an interviewer asks me that.

Early every morning an old woman goes to the market to curse a grocery clerk, who curses back.

There is a logical explanation for everything, often mistaken for the reason it happened.

[A cat] will lie the whole evening on your knee, purring and happy in your society.