Don't struggle so much, the best things happen when not expected.

A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.

Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man, only when that man needs help to get up from the ground.

No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had.

Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.

Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it

The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.

If you love something - let. If it is yours - it will come back. I love you not because of who you are, but for who I am when I'm with you.

Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.

The journey from the head to the hand is perilous and lined with bodies. It is the road on which nearly everyone who wants to write—and many of the people who do write—get lost.

I didn't begin life hating my grandmother. Like every child, I adored her. Until I formed a brain and got to know her.

Whenever I feel like I'm getting too far away from where I need to be, I think about my sons and the legacy I have to leave for them - and it always brings me back to reality.

I don't really have any women in my life, actually those two - the women in my life are two married women who work at my office.

Dogs and other animals - goats, donkeys, cows, a grumpy rooster - continue to change my writing life.

I learned that gratitude is the best feeling I would ever have, the ultimate joy of living.

One man's fish is another man's poisson.

It's that quirky kind of weekend feeling they write ridiculous sunny-day songs about. You know the ones--I'm sure they're on your iPod even though you'd never admit it.

Gun control responsibilities are taking police officers off the street and adding to crime.

A wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.