There's a story behind everything..but behind all your stories is always your mother's story..because hers is where yours begins.

If you want to be a good writer, make sure you read. I'm amazed by how many people don't bother to do that.

This is the greatest gift God can give you: to understand what happened in your life. To have it explained. It is the peace you have been searching for.

We do not realize the sound the world makes -- unless, of course, it comes to a stop. Then, when it starts, it sounds like an orchestra.

Death: the only true emotion felt in an apathetic world

...You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.

Young men go to war. Sometimes because they have to, sometimes because they want to. Always, they feel they are supposed to. This comes from the sad, layered stories of life, which over the centuries have seen courage confused with picking up arms, and cowardice confused with laying them down.