But, like peace, comfort didn't come from hiding away or running away. Comfort first demanded courage.

What haunted people even, perhaps especially, on their deathbed? What chased them, tortured them and brought some of them to their knees? And [he] thought he had the answer. Regret. Regret for things said, things done, and things not done. Regret for the people they might have been. And failed to be.

It is very, very dangerous to come between a person and their beliefs.

Winning doesn't mean my book is better than anyone else's. It means I'm very fortunate. And I should be very, very aware of that. And grateful.

Fear lives in the head. And courage lives in the heart. The job is to get from one to the other.

To be honest, the only thing I ever really wanted to be was a writer - since I read 'Charlotte's Web' as a child.

Where there is love there is courage, where there is courage there is peace, where there is peace there is God. And when you have God, you have everything.