"The story is a piece of work. The novel is a way of life."

“If you have problems in your life, don’t assume there is something wrong with you.”

Source : "The Atonement:All for All". Bruce C. Hafen's address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April 2004.

“False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.”

“In India, I learned a proverb that says, 'Distrust the calculation seven times over, the mathematician a hundred times.'”

“How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in stocks, bonds, mutual funds or savings accounts? Income property is the most historically proven asset class in America, if not the entire world. I rest my case.”

Source : Robert G. Allen (2006). “Creating Wealth: Retire in Ten Years Using Allen's Seven Principles of Wealth”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

“All I need in a relationship is somebody to watch TV with me”

Source : "Both Huntress and Prey" by Sam Kashner, www.vanityfair.com. November 24.

“There are moments when you feel free, moments when you have energy, moments when you have hope, but you can't rely on any of these things to see you through. Circumstances do that.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“We still have to learn how to live peacefully, not only with our fellow men but also with nature and, above all, with those Higher Powers which have made nature and have made us; for, assuredly, we have not come about by accident and certainly have not made ourselves”

“The word 'creative' refers simply to the use of literary craft in presenting nonfiction—that is, factually accurate prose about real people and events—in a compelling, vivid manner. To put it another way, creative nonfiction writers do not make things up; they make ideas and information that already exist more interesting and, often, more accessible.”