I can remember the times when I started including humor in novels that were suspenseful. I was told you can't do that because you can't keep the audience in suspense if they're laughing. My attitude was, if the character has a sense of humor, then that makes the character more real because that's how we deal with the vicissitudes of life, we deal with it through humor.

Not all or even most suffering is at the hands of fate; it befalls us at our invitation.

Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.

its a rare thing to know one completly to the core and stil love him

Even if God exists, does He know that you do?

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

He said, if you allow yourself to be enchanted by the beauty to be seen in even ordinary things, then all things proved to be extraordinary.