What makes a writer successful is not money or fame (though both are nice) ... it's that in being true to her or himself, the words were able to connect to a reader's heart.

Her eyes flashed, hot and angry, like lightening cutting through a red sunset.

I am learning that man can live profoundly without masses of things.

Since the age of four, I've been exploring what I can do with the written word: everything from championing literacy and youth voice to raising awareness about world hunger.

First of all, it was in my contract. I knew I would be directing an episode.

There is a special mystique about the marathon, for example, because of its length-but that's just the bit you do at the end of an Ironman

We are a European nation - must stay one.

Relax yourself from one job by doing a different one.

There is only one person responsible for the quality of life you live and that person is you.

The Absolute Truth can be perceived by a repentant heart.

Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding