What doesn't quicken dies. That's an indisputable truth of life.

Being paid well for something you love to do - it's a grace.

we must seize life because we never know how much of it remains for us, that faith is the antidote to despair and that laughter is the music of faith.

Change isn't easy. Changing the way you live means changing the way you think, means changing what you believe about life. That's hard.

I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.

How passionately we love everything that cannot last: the dazzling crystallory of winter, the spring in bloom, the fragile flight of butterflies, crimson sunsets, a kiss, and life.

Alliteration seems to offend people.