When I'm writing, I make words my b*tch. But when I'm editing, the words make me their b*tch. It all equals out in the end.

If I could make money making armpit farts, I would. But since I can't, I teach. And write.

The best story to tell your kids is that of your own family.

Waking in the morning, I had to remember grief all over again. It was sunny, a white winter sun, and that made me sad.

To succeed perseverance yells "pain to gain". If you don't take heed, you'll end up slain!

I love audio books, and when I paint I'm always listening to a book. I find that my imagination really takes flight in the painting process when I'm listening to audio books.

Morality has nothing to do with sports. Bad people can be good at sports and good people can be bad at sports.

I have great confidence in Rick Caruso's unique qualifications and his ability to lead a successful bid for the Los Angeles Dodgers.

I'm not writing for fundamentalists. I'm writing for the people who have been repelled by that kind of thinking and yet who think there might be something they haven't yet discovered.

I grew up in a small town in India, but through books I knew the world.

If a cat sits on a hot stove once, it will never sit on a cold one either.

I think meditation has been the single biggest reason for whatever success Ive had