Guess if you can, choose if you dare.

When a plan or strategy fails, people are tempted to assume it was the wrong vision. Plans and strategies can always be changed and improved. But vision doesn't change. Visions are simply refined with time.

Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.

I never try to give a message in my books. It's about living with characters long enough to hear their voices and let them tell me the story. Sometimes I would love to have a happy ending, and it doesn't happen because the character or the story leads me in another direction.

I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer.

I went to Los Angeles for acting, and I thought that's where I wanted to go, and I found out that I didn't belong there.

Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.

True wisdom is found ins trusting God when you can't figure things out.

Thomas Brooks defines providence this way: "It is the unceasing activity of the sovereign Creator whereby, he upholds His creatures in orderly existence, guides and governs all events, circumstances and free acts of men and angels, no matter how great or trivial. All of this is done to accomplish one great design: to give glory to Himself.

You are responsible for allocating your life.

The fates lead him who will; him who won't they drag.

When you follow your bliss...doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors, and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else.