Approach your lives as if they were novels, with their own heroes, villains, red herrings, and triumphs.

I am a natural optimist but there were times when (it seemed like) I was doing nothing but adding up on the back of envelope what I had to pay this month.

Funny, when you finally faced reality, it was amazing how clearly you could see things.

Happines is like mercury. Hard to hold, and when we drop it, it shatters into a million pieces. Maybe the bravest of all are those who have the courage to reach for it again.

When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.

As a writer, you paint strokes and leave suggestions so readers can create their own pictures. That allows you to know someone by a small action and it saves countless pages of explanation.

If you want to be happy for life, love what you do.