Why me, lord? Don't answer that!

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.

Be yourself. No one can say you're doing it wrong.

Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.

Nothing echoes like an empty mailbox.

Just thinking about a friend makes you want to do a happy dance, because a friend is someone who loves you in spite of your faults.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, look to tomorrow, rest this afternoon.

It's better to live one day as a lion than a dozen years as a sheep.

All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn't a dog.

It was a dark and stormy night. - Snoopy

I love you more than I hate everything else.

He learned that kisses and touches and professions of love could make you forget, and that the more he was with Kieran, the more he wanted to be with him and not with anyone else.

There are three secrets to writing a novel. Unfortunately nobody knows what they are.

You can ask any set decorator on any set where I've had to be in an office, I always kind of claim it - I put Post-its everywhere, and I kind of make it look lived-in.

We have to choose between dialogue and utter devastation.

There is a vast territory between what we're trying to leave behind, and where we want to go - and we don't have any maps for that territory.

For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in

I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives if I hadn't been able to shift into fiction.

Don't be afraid to step out and trust God. He is more faithful than the rising of the sun.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway.