With gentleness overcome anger. With generosity overcome meanness. With truth overcome deceit.

Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to others.

Peace comes from within.  Do not seek it without.

Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading

Tune as the sitthar, neither high nor low, and we will dance away the hearts of men.

Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.

Your mind is a powerful thing. When you filter it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

The way to happiness is: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, give much. Fill your life with love. Do as you would be done by.

Since everything is a reflection of our minds, everything can be changed by our minds.

If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.

I will not tell you our love story, because-like all real love stories-it will die with us, as it should.

I was a businessman for 16 years of my life, so when I started writing, I wanted to keep my literary identity separate.

Someone has said the best nursing home is the U.S. Senate.

I grew up really loving horror movies and genre movies. I was a big fan of Universal Monsters movies, read Famous Monsters magazine. I built monster models and creature effects...

I've always been attracted to temporary families.

Before we give the government any more money, show us some receipts.

Oftentimes what happens is that the writer understands one character, but they don't understand the other one, and the other one ends up not being written as well.

If you don't believe in yourself nobody else will believe in you.

One thing I'm always thinking about myself is what am I willing to make up? And the answer is not much.