You think you know what you want and how it's all supposed to turn out. When all is said and done, you get what you need. You know in the end that what you need is what you really wanted all along.

The very first Easter taught us this: that life never ends and love never dies.

Let your love be stronger than your fear.

There’s a big difference between the head and the heart. Fear lives in the head. Love lives in the heart. The head thinks it knows it all but the heart is always right.

Love is the most powerful force on earth. The end of fear is where love begins. Then nothing can overcome you.

True friendship has no checks or balances. Once someone starts Keeping Score, the game is over.

You change for two reasons. Either you learn enough that you want to or you've been hurt enough that you have to.

Beauty is being who God made you to be. Make the most of what you have. He gave you what you are. Nothing about you is by accident. The right people will love you unconditionally, just as He does.

If there’s anyone we are sure to learn something from, it’s the one who pushes our buttons.

Life's too short to lay in wait. A soul is meant to love and love is all there is.

We are all lost souls until we are found.

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.

Making movies is all about instinct.

Find something you love, and go after it, with all of your heart.

To be pure in heart is to take no delight in cunning, but converse sincerely with men, and express nothing, by word or look, which is not felt in the heart.

If laws are unjust, they must be continually broken until they are altered.

The business of life is learning that you can't lay down the terms.

Everything in your world is created by what you think.

I consider the success of my day based on the seeds I sow, not the harvest I reap.

My novels are high concept. I guess big ideas interest me more than, say, the minutiae of domestic life.