Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone's home and backyard.

One true king knew when to step aside and give up the reins of power—to remove his crown and relinquish his kingdom—all for the sake of glimpsing, just once in a lifetime, the face of a holy child. He was the Fourth to follow the Star. His gift was a secret. The rest of his journey is unknown.

I usually focus on the whole group of characters in any given work-in-progress, and as a result they become particularly dear to me as I delve into their innermost motivations and live out their lives.

Love is made up of three unconditional properties in equal measure: 1. Acceptance 2. Understanding 3. Appreciation Remove any one of the three and the triangle falls apart. Which, by the way, is something highly inadvisable. Think about it — do you really want to live in a world of only two dimensions? So, for the love of a triangle, please keep love whole.

The act of sharing with readers was at first too much of an intimate thing. But it evolved into an intense necessity to share.

Don't be afraid of the dark. Shine!

Luck is not as random as you think. Before that lottery ticket won the jackpot, someone had to buy it.