I'm very interested in compassion - compassion for oneself and others. I write about very complicated characters and experiences and try to do it without judging the character or the action.

Let us never forget to pray. God lives. He is near. He is real. He is not only aware of us but cares for us. He is our Father. He is accessible to all who will seek Him.

If you don’t write the book you have to write, everything breaks.

In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.

Books tell you more about their owners than the owners do.

If we are worried about the future, then we must look today at the upbringing of children.

Sometimes you can do things for others that you can't do for yourself.

People should pay more attention. Everyone wants attention, but no one wants to give attention.

It's my policy not to review funerals.

I'm nothing you can catch now. I am black powder, I am singe, I am the bomb that bursts the night.

Was this the big one or was this the small tremor, the warning? Does it get better - does the sensation of being in a dream underwater go away?

Hope in God makes a happy heart.

Authentic love is deciding to live on a one-way street where all the arrows point down the street and not a single one of them point back up to where I’m standing.

I wasn't glad that I hadn't died. And I wasn't sad that I hadn't. I wasn't anything.

Perfect is the enemy of done.

You can't make people right by making them feel wrong!

The only way we can ever get through to the truth is by finding out what we are not. We do that by looking, by observation.

I project love, music and love, and I pray for peace. A good song cuts straight to the heart; sometimes it doesn't need to be too many lines - of course, I do love a good story.

I am sick of living out of a suitcase.

Caste is important for selection of home minister.