I was scared. Do you know what it's like to hold someone else's life in your hands? It's like playing God. Can you think of anything scarier than that?

I try to give both my heroes and villains an emotional dimensionality which provides the motivation for their actions.

Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don't listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself.

You have two choices. you can keep running and hiding and blaming the world for your problems, or you can stand up for yourself and decide to be somebody important.

There is magic, but you have to be the magician. You have to make the magic happen.

My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place - police, firefighters and members of our armed forces.

Life is like a novel. It's filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happen until you turn the page.

To be successfull you need friends and to be very successfull you need enemies.

A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.

Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived.

you are my sun, and if the sun went out, the shadow would die.

Beauty is the moment when time vanishes and eternity arises.

Writers don't just create pages in a novel, but depth to worlds that become a safe haven for those who wish to escape the reality of their own.

Behind every problem in your life is a rich blessing.

Let's put it this way - I photograph what interests me all the time. I live with the pictures to see what that thing looks like photographed. I'm saying the same thing; I'm not changing it.

Just Remember: The people that say, "your dreams are impossible " have already quit on theirs.

Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.

When all is said and done, the one sole condition that makes spiritual happiness and preserves it is the absence of doubt.

You know, my joints don't feel sore as much, I digest food a lot better, my hands feel less swollen so I feel really good.

I believe that one's basic financial attitudes are - like a tendency toward fat knees - probably formed in utero, or, at the very latest, in cribbo.

A lost trail always extends beyond the evidence, and even the trails we find are only fragments of the trails that lie beyond our comprehension.