None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime.

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

The characters that I create are parts of myself and I send them on little missions to find out what I don’t know yet.

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.

Some things arrive in their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever.

Negative people present us with an accelereted personal growth opportunity.

The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: There is a forward motion to yearning.

The more you respect and focus on the singular and the strange, the more you become aware of the universal and infinite.

The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.

Life is a disease.

You can't be a good manager if you are doing everything yourself.

I live by grace.

Sit with the repentant, for they have the softest hearts.

It's not about finding Mr Right, or that sort of conventional ending, but I do want my characters to have hope - and that's what I do with all my stories.

No high achiever ever woke up in the morning and said ‘let’s see what happens.’

By hook or by crook this peril too shall be something that we remember

The best way to help Africans today is to help them to stand on their own feet. And the best way to do that is by helping create jobs.

Analytics only goes so far. Basketball, more than baseball, for example, is really a team sport.

It's just a matter of, for me, getting my mind where it needs to be. Certainly I've made a lot of adjustments in my life, and I've gone through a lot. A lot.

Prayer is your way, often the only way, to water the harvest. By prayer you can bring the Holy Spirit's blessing on any gospel effort anywhere in the world.