When you get older, keeping the private stuff private seems less important.

Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for.

Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.

The less attention I pay to what people want and the more attention I pay to just writing the book I want to write, the better I do.

Ideas come to people who are receptive to them.

It's the easiest thing in the world to know God's will. You just wait and see what happens, and that's it.

If you cannot stand a spoon upright in the cup, then the coffee is too weak.

I can't persuade myself that one of the problems facing the planet today might be a shortage of books by me.

Every year there's a few more things I'm not sure of. I've decided that a wide-ranging uncertainty is the mark of the true maturity of man.

I never know what I'm going to write next, and when I think I do I usually turn out to be mistaken.

Why on earth should I care whether people read me with their eyes or their ears?

Once war becomes a clash of absolutes, there is no breathing room for mercy. Absolute truth is blind truth.

Mindfulness and compassion can give you the power, illumination, love, and wisdom to draw higher forms, thoughts, feelings, and situations into your life.

You ask me, of all people, how to protect a boy in terrible danger? We cannot protect the young from harm. Pain must and will come.

I can’t sleep alone anymoreand I get used tocompanytoo quickly. You’re always gone too soon.

The generation that bought the most shoes and crippled the moral footing

Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media.

I do recall how I got the ideas for some of my books. Many of them are a result of doodling.

Family is the most important thing. Family starts with your wife and your kids.

Honest and sincere acts mislead the wicked and cause them to lose their path to their own goals, because mean-spirited people usually believe that people never act without deceit.

People want to pick the leader, and we are obsessed with celebrity and whoever is on the cover of this or that.