By using novels, I show ordinary kids confronting and overcoming great odds.

Nobody gets to pick their time to die, but living every day to the max is something we all get to do.

Pain and suffering are the soil of strength and courage.

None of us truly knows what we'll do when the circumstances become so overwhelming and complex that we can't even tell right from wrong.

For as long as the world spins and the earth is green with new wood, she will lie in this box and not in my arms.

You don't know me, but I know about you...I can't make you live longer. I can't stop you from hurting. But I can give you one wish, as someone did for me.

Who wants to be used? I love to read, so books are my main friends. They're always available, always friendly, and always interesting, and they never make me choose sides.

If I can't wait for you at the end of an aisle on your wedding day, I'll wait for you in heaven.

I wanted to write about the third world and had the opportunity to go live in the trenches, so to speak.

I am very privileged and honored when someone chooses to read a book, especially a book of mine.

But they can't know how the dark space inside me is growing. I lie to them. I can't get out of the dark hole. 'Peace is here' it whispers.

Ish #211 "Your child is your parental obligation, not friend.

An old fool is worse than a young one: For the young may always grow wise. (Zohair)

There's nothing colder than chemistry.

It's not hard to find Gerry Ford on a golf course - you just follow the wounded.

An economy that adds value through information, ideas, and intelligence-the Three I Economy-offers a way out of the apparent clash between material growth and environmental resources.

The one supreme business of life is to find God's plan for your life and live it

Eternity does not mean infinite time, but simply timelessness

A tune has to resonate with whatever is happening around it.

I kept telling myself this word, process. Focus on my process, don't care about the result.

If I melt dry ice, can I swim without getting wet?