Creativity is at the root of love and meaning in this life.

History remembers only the celebrated, genealogy remembers them all.

I reserve the right to evolve. What I think and feel today is subject to revision tomorrow.

Expect nothing and accept everything and you will never be disappointed.

Live with an open mind and an open heart. Always choose love over fear and kindness over cruelty.

War, hatred, and violence all spring from one infernal idea: that one person, race, creed, or culture is better than another.

Apathy is the slow poison coursing through the body politic that paves the way to tyranny.

The people who change the world never lose hope no matter how bleak the outcome might appear to be.

To listen to the silence is to hear the heartbeat of the Universe.

From generation to generation, lights are extinguished and darkness threatens until some one stoops to bear the torch.

Only love and courage will make this world a safer place. Hatred and fear will make it more dangerous.

...a thriller's toughest trick: carefully assembling everything we think we know, until it reveals the one thing we didn't see coming.

How to write a book? Start writing, continue writing and finish writing.

Over the years, I've learned that a sense of humor is the only skill that allows you to turn sucking at life into a career.

If our nation wants to reduce global warming, air pollution and energy instability, we should invest only in the best energy options. Nuclear energy isn't one of them.

As it turns out, there is a thing called the Internet, and stuff does go out there whether the suits like it or not.

When you walk in the mist, you get wet.

When you have millions of dollars, you have millions of friends.

It needs only a good bottle of wine for a roast chicken to be transformed into a banquet.

How do you introduce boyfriend C to boyfriend A after boyfriend A has been such a good sport, of late, about boyfriend B, who is no longer in the picture?

The Gospel is the deepest consolation you can offer to the human heart.