I developed a deep sadness for celebrities, a pity that they often are caught in a plastic world that runs too hard and too fast, and that many times that world means destroyed relationships with everyone they know and love.

You don't have love without sacrifice; you can't have sacrifice without love.

I'm receiving 300 to 500 letters every week from people telling me that God used my stories to save their marriage or to introduce them to Christ or to heal a relationship that had been broken.

I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.

To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan... believe... act!

I don't believe in inspiration at all. We live in a world that demands explanation. And fiction has the capability to offer explanations for things.

I was very athletic when I was younger and I am a very competitive person, so I never give up.

Dream the impossible because dreams do come true.