Hope burns eternal in the human heart.

Love is patient. Love is kind. It bears all things. Love never fails. Love is as strong as death.

When you write for children and young adults, you have much more affect and influence on them than when you write for adults. The books that get us through our childhood stay with us for life.

All my books reflect travel adventures of some kind, and all have a soul: a spiritual or mystical underpinning.

Hope burns eternal in the human heart.

You shouldn't read so much, you'll get a brain tumor.

I was fortunate in that I attended university in Canada in the early 1970s when you could take a true liberal arts degree with no programmes, majors or minors.