You may find many contradictory statements and philosophies within my writings. However, to this I will say such is life, for life is full of contradictions.

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.

Your struggle is your strength. If you can resist becoming negative, bitter or hopeless, in time, your struggles will give you everything.

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.

We only hurt others because we don't love ourselves. Learning to truly love yourself changes your relationship with everyone.

It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them, and work to get to know them a little, it is then easy to find something likeable in practically anyone.

Don't hold together what must fall apart. The familiar life crumbles so the new life can begin.

The love and attention you always thought you wanted from someone else is the love and attention you first need to give to yourself.

The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.

The feeling of being 'offended' is a warning indicator that is showing you where to look within yourself for unresolved issues.

Quit saying you don't have time. You have time for what you make time for in life.

We know only that in some strange and melancholy way we have become a waste land. All the same, we are not often sad.

My heart is too valuable to allow hatred and jealousy to rent a spot.

As a writer, I'm always at the mercy of my inspiration, my intuition, and my imagination.

What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in front of campfires and fireplaces - the ghost stories that engaged us.

You get to know more of the character of a man in a round of golf than in six months of political experience.

Loyalty was a funny thing. So was love. They both bit you when you least expected it.

It's a lot of talent sitting in suits.

There is nothing scary about life if you are not attached to results.

Where's there's money involved, there are no good guys.

You can learn by listening, or by getting whacked between the eyes with a two-by-four. I always found listening easier.