Judgment is easy: it is black and white, as brutal as a gavel strike.

Love is the easiest thing there is. It's the layers of doubt, fear, and expectation that make it complicated.

Missing pieces do more than complete the puzzle, they fill in an empty space.

The music never leaves. Once you have it, you can't lose it.

I was born in a library, in the fiction stacks.

The biggest mistake any of us can make is thinking that love is a feeling, an emotion. It's not that at all. It's an action.

Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing of all.

I am honored to have had two Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions made from my novels - Silver Bells and Follow the Stars Home.

You fall in love with the girl next door but married her sister.

A good sailor knows everything is always changing.

Some feelings are stronger than fear: love, longing, desire.

Music is the highest form of philosophy of the conscious mind.

Knowledge cannot defile nor consequently the books if the will and conscience be not defiled.

Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.

I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.

Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try to introduce the concept of the positive into philosophy?

Imagination is actually a form of computation. Imagination gives calculated and instinctive solutions for the future.

You can start something, do it, and believe that that's what you're doing, but then the inspiration comes and it's like, "Nope, this is what it is."

You can really help support a character if you understand the setting. So for that reason I generally write about Philadelphia.

My mother preferred trees to certain kinds of people. Increasingly, as I get older I have to admit that I occasionally understand her preference.

A brave man is sometimes a desperado: a bully is always a coward.