The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.

It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.

Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake.

Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.

We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces on the edges of print.

My father wears his faith like the bronze breastplate of God's footsoldiers while our mother's is more like a good cloth coat with a secondhand fit.

If It's your passion and you want to do it for the rest of your life, why would comments stop you from doing that?

The life of a writer is tragic: the more we advance, the farther there is to go and the more there is to say, the less time there is to say it.

These three things God requires of all the Baptized: right faith in the heart, truth on the tongue, temperance in the body.

The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been great changes.

I didn’t want or expect this. But I couldn’t resist you.

Make yourself look really stupid so you don't feel bad doing something a little stupid.

I didn't and don't go to Internet for any business purposes. The book sales for me by this point are way beyond any influence I might have, positively, or others might have, negatively.

I'm not into looking crisp. That's not how I dress or who I am.