You won't change anything significant in the world if you try to be like it. Change comes when you do something different.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.

There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.

A true gentleman is one that apologizes anyways, even though he has not offended a lady intentionally. He is in a class all of his own because he knows the value of a woman's heart.

A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.

The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.

When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, "What was it that you wanted and why didn't you fight for it?

The most introspective of souls are often those that have been hurt the most.

When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to see all the doors God has open in front of you.

If he can't handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain, and instead seeing a person's soul.

A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.

Never sever ties with a family member you once loved. Each of you might be on different spiritual paths, but both trails are leading you home.

A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas, and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.

Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.

Before beginning an activity always first empty yourself of thoughts regarding what you are about to do.

My trick is the trick that everyone knows: Work really hard and prepare.

I think it's really hard to understand the depths and the power of the love that someone has for their children unless you really have children.

Pitching was about fooling people, manipulating them, making them believe in something that ultimately wasn't there. Great pitching was great lying.

we certainly do not want to abolish power, that would be abolishing life itself, but we need a new orientation toward it.

At my age, I'm often asked if I'm frightened of death and my reply is always, I can't remember being frightened of birth.