To say that I enjoyed writing... is like saying I enjoy having fingers and toes. It's difficult to imagine life without them.

At the heart of the impulse to tell stories is a mystery so profound.

Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend.

Knowing where you come from is one thing, but it's suicide to stay there.

Let others think what they like: for me, the culmination of life consists of a pure and subtly dramatic passion.

Wealth is good when it brings joy to others.

Your soul has a resiliency and a capacity to endure suffering that is beyond anything you can imagine.

Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps.

I am optimistic about the future. Brethren, for our part, we must remain steadfast in hope, work with all our strength, and trust in God.

A Maybelline New York woman is strong and confident - I love that attitude.

When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime.

Our lives feel like these epochs, but really we are dust in the wind.

If you die and enough people are watching, then you become a martyr, you become a hero, you become well-known.

To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction.