For me, almost always, the answer was cake.

Love and prayer are intimately related.

Consider the difference between the first and third person in poetry [...] It's like the difference between looking at a person and looking through their eyes.

If you only write for 15 minutes at a time, you can write a book and still have time for Legos.

Marry, don't marry, ' Auntie Aya says as we unfold layers of dough to make an apple str

Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are a hundred ways to kneel and kiss the ground

You're taller than I am, but I'm stronger, and meaner right this minute than you could ever imagine" - Lady Madelyne.

I like the way we talk to each other. It feels honest. It was different with Manuel. One of us always had to win. Husbands and wives do that, worry more about being right than being truthful.

You are never too old to set a new goal or to dream a new dream.

He is rich who owes nothing.

The false prophets of Communism predict a utopian society.

When you're a houseguest and you leave, it's nice to straighten something up or send your hosts a useful gift. And when you leave the planet, it's nice to have made a positive contribution.

I believe that every writer evolves with every successive novel. I view myself as work-in-progress.

I'm sporty, active, bubbly, I like to make people laugh... I'm the jokester. But I'm also very traditional.

Right now it is a terrible thing to be a rugged individualist; but we don't know what else to be except a feeble nonentity.

My hope is that God will have changed people's lives through me for the better.