Life is like crossing a river. If you take a huge step-aim for too bigger dreams-then the current will knock you off your feet and carry you away. The way to do it is small steps, you will take hold of life. You will get there in the end.

School just speeds things up... Without school it might take 70 years before you wake up and are able to count.

The bark on the tree was just a little softer.

Whenever you give someone a present or sing a holiday song, you're helping Santa Claus. To me, that's what Christmas is all about. Helping Santa Claus!

It's – I write the books and let the market find who reads it. I guess a young adult is anywhere from ten to fifteen.

An idea doesn't die," said Trapp. "It exists somewhere, in its own dimension, waiting to be perceived.

I write in the mornings, two or three hours every day, and then at least four times a week I play in a duplicate game at a bridge club. I try to go to tournaments three, four, or five times a year.