If fate sends you a lemon, use it to make lemonade.

Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for.

Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.

The less attention I pay to what people want and the more attention I pay to just writing the book I want to write, the better I do.

Ideas come to people who are receptive to them.

It's the easiest thing in the world to know God's will. You just wait and see what happens, and that's it.

If you cannot stand a spoon upright in the cup, then the coffee is too weak.

I can't persuade myself that one of the problems facing the planet today might be a shortage of books by me.

Every year there's a few more things I'm not sure of. I've decided that a wide-ranging uncertainty is the mark of the true maturity of man.

I never know what I'm going to write next, and when I think I do I usually turn out to be mistaken.

Why on earth should I care whether people read me with their eyes or their ears?

Words know how to suffocate lies to exhale the truth.

She kept reminding me she was at a wedding, which didn’t really help my emotional state, if you know what I mean.

A complaint is a unique opportunity to strengthen the relationship with the client.

When we can find some humor in our upsets, they no longer seem as large or as important as they once did.

Those that differ upon Reason, may come together by Reason.

Take a lesson from the trees, watch the way they bend with each breeze, little victories.

I got a woman I'm loyal to above all things, above my career. She's profound to me. I'm quiet. I live in Kansas City. I work.

If I can't get the captains to respond appropriately and show the leadership I expect, how is anyone else going to respond?

Acceptance by government of a dissident press is a measure of the maturity of a nation.

I often wish my mother had died so that at least I could get some people's sympathy. But there she was, a perfectly beautiful mother.