Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself.

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.

There's a genius part of you that wants to create. That part of you wants to talk to God. Get out of the way.

I know, from the three visits I made to him, the blended composite of love and fear that exists only in a boy's notion of his father.

I fell in love with books. Some people find beauty in music, some in painting, some in landscape, but I find it in words. By beauty, I mean the feeling you have suddenly glimpsed another world, or looked into a portal that reveals a kind of magic or romance out of which the world has been constructed, a feeling there is something more than the mundane, and a reason for our plodding.

You can't tell a good story without conflict - the story can't be beautiful or meaningful. We're taught to run from conflict, and it's robbing us of some really good stories.

I want to start replacing my “fix” response with an “enjoy” response and just let people be themselves.