Perhaps it is true that all that happens is in accordance with Your will, and thus it is good. But sometimes You leave blood on Your instruments.

People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and backache and notes and more time and more work than you'd believe.

The irritating question they ask us -- us being writers -- is: "Where do you get your ideas?"

The irritating question they ask us -- us being writers -- is: "Where do you get your i

Sometimes you do things you regret, but there's nothing you can do about them. Times change. Doors close behind you. You move on.

As we write we summon little demons.

Business is ultimately about people and we can't be effective in business without having some insight into people.

Independence did not mean chauvinism and narrow nationalism.

God, as I use the word, is another name for what is. I always know God's intention: It's exactly what is in every moment.

It's the moment you think you can't, that you can

And now the end is near, and so I face the final curtain.

Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.

For the first time I am working on a book that is not limited and that will take every bit of experience and thought and feeling that I have.

When you hold a child in your arms, or hug your mother, or your husband, or your friend, if you breathe in and out three times, your happiness will be multiplied at least tenfold.

I believe in sympathy, compassion and forgiveness.

The idea of being in the desert is fundamental, but it's totally relative, and it's about that membrane: the way that one defines self versus the environment.