Our world was created with a sense of order. For every loss, there is a gain. Sometimes we are so blinded by the loss that we don't see the gain, don't recognize the gift.

Maybe money can't buy love - but it can get you practically everything else.

Sometimes, I think we're afraid to admit we want certain things. Especially things that contradict the image we have of ourselves.

Practicing an attitude of gratitude spills over to acts of generosity.

Grandpa Patterson used to say: Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from any direction.

My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my 'dead author wall.' I have signatures from Mark Twain, Earnest Hemingway, Jack London, Harriett Beecher Stowe, Pearl Buck, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to name a few.

We all face difficulties of our own, and how comforting it is to immerse yourself in a book - my book, any book, any romance. It's entertainment, it's escape, and it can even be an inspiration!