Those are some strong currents you're swimming against.

The main thing I wanted to say, and thankfully it’s what most people say they get out of the book, is simply an acknowledgement that we do affect each other in ways we can’t predict.

No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it just the same.

You can hear rumors. But you can't know them.

You can't stop the future You can't rewind the past The only way to learn the secret ...is to press play.

I've always loved brainstorming with other writers, and I consider having my work critiqued a part of that brainstorming.

And at some point, the struggle becomes too much-too tiring-and you consider letting go. Allowing tragedy... or whatever... to happen.

You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now.

Everything...affects everything

After all, how often do we get a second chance?

In the end....everything matters.

A good friend will help you move, but a true friend will help you move a body.

The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior.

The political horizon looks dark and lowering; but the people, under Providence, will set all right.

I'm lucky to have the privilege of being able to choose what I want to do.

I love movies that are saying things that people might find odd at times. I don't find them odd at all. They give me comfort.

Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order.

One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.

Today's future is Tomorrow's past

I have found that each of my books has developed out of something I have written in a previous book. Some thought evidently unfinished.

People make the world go, and Mothers make people, so they lead the dance.