Everyone who got to where they are had to begin where they were.

If the errors of my life have profited me one great truth it is this: believe. Believe in your destiny and the star from which it shines. Believe you have been sent from God as an arrow pulled from his own bow. It is the single universal trait which the great of this earth have all shared, while the shadows are fraught with ghosts who roam the winds with mournful wails of regret on their lips. Believe as if your life depended upon it, for indeed it does.

Love is never convenient-and rarely painless

The sin of the desert is knowing where the water is and not sharing it.

So much of young adult literature has turned dark, almost pathological. It's almost as if there is a race to see who can be the most dysfunctional.

Usually life’s greatest gifts come wrapped in adversity.

There's no problem so big that whining won't make it worse.