A lot of the problems in the mortgage world, people said, were because our competitors were evil. But a lot of it was a lack of technology - bad processes and systems.

Anybody who dies with money in the bank is a failure.

When we grew up, we wanted to do two things: to own a sports team and a casino.

From LeBron's standpoint, if a guy like Kyrie walks away - that creates doubt. But Kyrie committed right away, and that's a major statement about his faith in us.

The first thing is to hang on to everybody who is talented, who is entrepreneurial, who wants to make an impact and a change and start attracting ones.

Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language.

Let's live to regret this" (Martin Riggs [Mel Gibson] to Lorna Cole [Rene Russo] in Lethal Weapon 3)

C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage

The worse the haircut, the better the man.

Justice is the first virtue of social institutions.

What is it to serve God and to do His will? Nothing else than to show mercy to our neighbor. For it is our own neighbor who needs our service; God in heaven needs it not.

What is there to do when people die - people so dear and rare - but bring them back by remembering?

Today will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all.

I think of my books now as suspense novels, usually with a love story incorporated. They're absolutely a lot harder to write than romances. They take more plotting and real character development.

Music was my friend when I was a teenager, and I would inhabit and take comfort in lyrics. That's how I want to write.