You cannot judge the value of a life by its length.

Worrying is using your imagination to create something you don't want.

The greatest gift you can ever give another person is your own happiness

The image of where you are going has to be more dominant than the image of where you are.

The greatest irony in the world is that you are so blessed and don't know it.

Stop telling it like it is and start telling it like you WANT it to be!

An answer to a question no one asked is a wasted answer.

Look forward to where you want to be and spend no time complaining about where you are.

The certain pathway to all things that you want is through the corridor of joy.

A happy life is just a string of happy moments. But most people don't allow the happy moment, because they're so busy trying to get a happy life.

The main event has never been the manifestation; the main event has always been the way you feel moment by moment, because that's what life is.

I don't know how to make people who absolutely have to be obsessed with paying a week's energy bills... obsessed with climate change... It's very hard.

Now I'm on the rise, doin' business with my guys. Visions realize, music [your craft] affected lives. A gift from the skies, to be recognized, I'm keeping my eye on the people, that's the prize

When the leaves turn brown, I'll be wearing the batting crown

And there's always retrospect to light a clearer path.

I would be quite happy to see the Northern Alliance steam across northern Afghanistan and take Kabul.

What the world needs is a set villain that people can point at and say, “It’s all your fault!

Photography is painting with light

The badge of honesty is simplicity.

It is one thing to believe in God; it is quite another to believe God.

I hate it when something I've had published "inspires" some nut to imitate what I've written, or some teacher gets fired for having her students read one of my stories or novels.