James Patterson Quotes

Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you're keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls...are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.

Your mind creates your reality. If you expect nothing, you open up the universe to give you options. If you expect the worst, you usually get it.

You see, one of the best things about reading is that you'll always have something to think about when you're not reading.

Bad stuff happens. Sometimes it makes no sense at all. Sometimes its unfair. Sometimes, it just plain sucks. Bad stuff happens sometimes. Always remember that, but remember that you have to move on somehow. You just pick your head up and stare at something beautiful like the sky, or the ocean, and you move the hell on.

Stop trying to write sentences and start trying to write stories.

Don't depend on others to give you strength....Find it within yourself

Seize what's been handed you. Make smart decisions. Make decisions because life is a temporary situation.

Good memories are like charms...Each is special. You collect them, one by one, until one day you look back and discover they make a long, colorful bracelet.

A friend of mine once defined love as finding someone you can talk to late into the night

I'm not Stubborn; I'm right!

You are an endless project...changing, evolving, surprising.

Another day. Get up and face it.

Never underestimate the power of funny, it moves mountains.

The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is that life actually goes on. When you're faced with a tragedy, a loss so huge that you have no idea how you can live through it, somehow, the world keeps turning, the seconds keep ticking.

Half the time when brothers wrestle, it's just an excuse to hug each other.

But what is life if you don't live it?

Knowledge is a terrible burden. It may help you, but it might also destroy you.

What are we but our stories?

If you want to write for yourself, get a diary. If you want to write for your friends, get a blog. If you want to write for others...become an author.

Home is wherever we all are together.

Popcorn for breakfast! Why not? It's a grain. It's like grits, but with high self-esteem.

I never miss a good chance to shut up

Basically, I have two speeds.... Hostile or smart-aleck. Your choice.

For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin -- real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.

I remembered something my first partner had told me. Never wrestle with a pig, Lindsay. You both get dirty. The pig likes it.