Confidence is the public face of competence.

Confidence is the immaterial residue of material actions. Confidence is the public face of competence.

Every person has their pantheon - the Bible, Hollywood, Shakespeare - their way of understanding the world.

It is one thing to rouse the passion of a people, and quite another to lead them.

The substance of faith is a hope in the unseen.

I absolutely reject that idea that the press is liberal and what it does is liberal. In my view, it's like accusing a doctor of malpractice or a lawyer of malfeasance.

Message matters. Message matters almost as much as actions.

If you write something the White House doesn't like, they take you in and say, 'If you ever write something like you did today, nobody from the White House will ever talk to you again

For any thinking person, it (perpetual happiness) is untenable. If you're a thinking person, your upbeat sometimes, said sometimes.

Civilizations rise and fall on confidence. America had figured out a way to borrow money to manufacture it.

Choose your words meticulously and then let them rumble up from some deep furnace of conviction.

Can all this just be an accident? Or could there be some alien intelligence behind it?

We must never minimize the suffering of another. Scripture's mandate to us is, "Weep with them that weep." (Romans 12:15, KJV)

Napoleon didn't take Moscow, the Nazis got within 21 miles in 1943, but in a war of a different kind, Team Canada conquered Moscow.

Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them.

True repentance also involves reform.

We all know about blogs and how big they are.

The defense should be expecting a run or a pass here.

All these years, I've been opening the window and making love to the world.

I'm enjoying the work while I get it right now.

In my latter years I've decided that there's too much to keep track of when you go into the lying game. That becomes stressful and it's not for me anymore.