Every human being has appetites difficult to control but far fewer have humility, gentleness, and an awareness of their weaknesses.

Funny, how one good cookie could calm the mind and even elevate a troubled soul.

It is music that speaks to the deepest reaches of your soul, and you are lifted higher, ever higher, by the adagio, in my opinion more so even than in any of the masses that Beethoven composed.

What year these events transpired is of no consequence. Where they occured is not important. The time is always, and the place is everywhere.

In each little life, we can see great truth and beauty, and in each little life we glimpse the way of all things in the universe. If we alow ourselves to be enchanted by the beauty of the ordinary, we begin to see that all things extraordinary.

Sometimes many publishers prefer that you write the same book every time, but I have a low boredom threshold so that isn't going to happen.

We never had books in the house. Not any book in our house. Not a Bible, not anything. So, I would go the library from a very young age and get the books out.