It's not where you start but where you finish.

If you love a tree you will be more beautiful than before!

Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected the ever-changing and renewing is nowhere so exemplified as in real life itself.

I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense.

I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.

And what if I fail?" "Ah! Then you'll have a story to tell.

I know it's tough. Everybody in baseball knows its tough. I'm just going to give it my best shot.

Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book.

The person who has the strong ownership of free speech is the one who owns the press.

I did quite enjoy the days when one went for a beer at one's local in Paris and woke up in Corsica.

At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction.