Guilt is a tireless horse. Grief ages into sorrow, and sorrow is an enduring rider.

When a knot gets to tight, you can always cut the rope

The more you expect from life, the more your expectations will be fulfilled. By laughing, you do not use up your laughter, but increase your store of it. The more you love, the more you will be loved. The more you give, the more you will receive. Life proves that truth every hour, every day. And life continues to surprise.

Even in the darkest moments, light exists if you have the faith to see it. Fear is a poison produced by the mind, and courage is the antidote stored always in the soul. In misfortune lies the seed of future triumph.

Behind every closed door might wait a thief of minds and a collector of souls.

A plot without action is like pasta without garlic, like Dolly Parton without cleavage, and like a writer without his similes.

For some, the past is a chain, each day a link, raveling backward to one ringbolt or another, in one dark place or another, and tomorrow is a slave to yesterday.