Where do you put your attention? On fear or love? I wish the choice were made just once and not repeated every moment of the day.

Coincidence is God's way of performing miracles anonymously.

I think our animals are angels, earth-angels, pointing out for us the steadfast path of love, loyalty, optimism, faith, joy, hope. They teach us everything important about life.

A shiver runs down your spine when you realize it is not our imagination. Something is watching us out there.

prayer is nothing more than thought. It is a yearning of the heart.

Prayer is a law of the universe, like gravity. You don't even have to believe in God to ask.

I have a lion inside me, and I had to feed it words every few days; when I don't, it begins to eat me instead.

When I'm having trouble I write by hand. There is some connection between the mind and the fingers that draws out words.

The urge is to create. The outcome belongs to God.

Angels come in all sizes and shapes and colors, visible and invisible to the physical eye. But always you are changed from having seen one.

Sometimes writer's block is no more than a signal that you have not done enough research.

It's normal to shy away from illness and death. It's natural to gravitate toward laughter and life.

Nana’s oven-baked fried chicken cut off the bone (with plenty of ketchup) was a huge hit. So were Thanksgiving turkey bathed in gravy and Nana’s Passover brisket

There is no essential difference between classical and popular music. Music is music. I want to communicate with the listener who finds Indian classical music remote.

Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.

This little patch of earth and this little pile of stones I can wash the dust from off my face and skin But this earth is in my bones

Brains aren't everything. In fact in your case they're nothing.

The camera gives you some control.

Lack of sleep makes me less productive. I need a good seven or eight hours a night.

COAST TO COAST, L.A. TO CHICAGO.

There are tens, perhaps hundreds of millions of people living in poverty and danger who might readily seek to enter a Western country if the opportunity is there.