In order to understand the impact you can have on another's life by listening you need to first be intimate with the experience of being heard.

Who is the daughter of God?

Some of the greatest journeys of humankind are those that, at the time being, only the one living it understands.

Writing is all at once an exploration of what is, and what is not. Of the known, and the unknown. A journey into the depths of self, and all of humankind.

A story is a really weird art object that should contain life but not be enslaved by the banality.

Anyone who's married to Mariah Carey - I'm pretty sure - doesn't have a great sense of humor. I mean, let's be honest: she's ridiculous. What is her game plan?

We've got to have major health care reform because that is the 800-pound gorilla. That is the thing that can swamp the boat fiscally for the United States.

Getting your foot in the door with some publishing people can be important when you're starting out as a writer, but it's also not enough to get you where you need to be.

No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.

It doesn't matter; even if you do tend to wear the same things all the time, it's how you wear them and your attitude that counts.

How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life

Today I offer a prayer of forgiveness: forgive the pettiness of my ingratitude... the absence of profound thankfulness.

Only when a man sees this universe as God does the veil fall from his eyes; then that man, purified and cleansed, finds his whole vision changed.

We're endangered by our own success.