When you hear the voice of Rosa Ponselle, you hear a fountain of melody blessed by the Lord.

A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity.

My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline.

If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don't want to write, do something else. It's as simple as that.

Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema.

I was a new devotee of Eastern mysticism and even though I did not join that particular group, I could well have done. They seemed a bit extreme but I regarded myself as not quite ready.

I decided to write about the myths of divorce.

For a long period in my life - it lasted about 10 years - I had writer's block.

My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness.

I have never been nervous in all my life and I have no patience with people who are. If you know what you are going to do, you have no reason to be nervous. And I knew what I was going to do.

My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.

No matter what your history has been, your destiny is what you create today. What are you going to create?

What would your shoes say about the things you do everyday?

The day of parochialism in sports is over. The world is too small for what people like to call 'the good old days.' Fans want the best, wherever they come from.

Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.

It is the child's understanding that teaches the adults the way of the future. They're still doing it today with modern technology.

Strong women only marry weak men.

They didn’t tell me I was going into space until after they locked the shuttle doors and started counting down.

Ive always found a cure for the blues is wandering into something unknown, and resting there, before coming back to whatever weight you were carrying.

They say everyone needs something to love.

What you do is proof of what you believe.