If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them..

The greatest griefs are silent..

Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference.

If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it..

The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs..

A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity..

Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes..

I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet..

Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out..

Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore deeper truths..

Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write..

Look, don't just stare at the pages," I used to tell my students. "Become the characters. Live inside the book..

People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy..

All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth..

I think... the secret is to just settle for the shape of your life takes...Instead of you know, always waiting and wishing for what might make you h….

Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That's what life's all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jump….

Its the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins included-alone. Singular. And yet what we seek-what ….

I am not a smart man, particularly, but one day, at long last, I stumbled from the dark woods of my own, and my family's, and my country's past, hold….

I love the most the students with troubled lives..

However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writi….

Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that..