People aren’t wired to be alone. Even in the stressful population of prison, solitary confinement is still considered a cruel punishment.
I’m a humble guy, okay?
I am a believer in angels, though not the picture-book kind with wings and harps. Such angelic accoutrements seem as nonsensical to me as devils sporting horns and carrying pitchforks. To me, angel wings are merely symbolic of their role as divine messengers.
When a man loses his vision of the future he dies.
There can be no joy without gratitude.
The first step of a journey is always the longest.
The concept of spiritual healing was something I was raised with.
Procrastination is the thief of dreams.
It’s a shame that humans don’t come with reset buttons.
We’re all moons. Sometimes our dark sides overshadow our light.
I suppose I have an active imagination, and writing allows me to live it out.
Iwas not a reader at all, not until I discovered ‘The Hobbit.’ That changed my life. It gave me the courage to read. It led me to the ‘Lord of the Rings’ series. And once I’d read that, I knew I could read anything because I had just read thousands of pages.
My grandfather, a devout Christian, had the gift of healing.
People are looking for inspiration, and my books are sometimes the vehicles of what people are looking for.
Raising or caring for children requires sacrifice and service, which, I believe, heals us from the destructive forces of self-centeredness.
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.
The idea of being a novelist is really romantic, but it’s kind of the same as being president of the United States – it’s not gonna happen.
The kids who speak well, are articulate and intelligent, are all readers.
People are like books, unknown until they are opened.
When we hate someone we make them more powerfull than they are.