Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another.

There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.

I love animals, always have, and it seemed natural to help the ASPCA. Animals have no voice of their own, so we have to be that voice

I am not a morning person.

I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will.

Remember your personal demons should be afraid of you, because you are their home, their food, and as you heal, their executioner.

You'd think a sociopath assassin wouldn't have a fan following but he does

Zebrowski says that if you killed someone else just hide the body, he's not starting over on the paperwork.

Never trust people who smile constantly. They're either selling something or not very bright.

My writing style is very sensual, as in sensory detail

The best lies are always at least partially true.

There is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy has as much right to opinion as Fermi.

Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful in anything that you put your mind to.

To rule one's anger is well to prevent it is better.

It is through the multitudinous mass of living human hearts, of human acts and words of love and truth, that the Christ of the first century has become the Christ of the nineteenth.

You can lose a man like that by your own death, but not by his.

I have absolutely zero interest in politics.

We've got to have a legacy of leadership. We've got to bring along with us a generation of black women who are going to confront twenty-first-century realities.

The struggle with evil by means of violence is the same as an attempt to stop a cloud, in order that there may be no rain.

Far from the West having caused the poverty in the Third World, contact with the West has been the principal agent of material progress there.

When you are happy, be thankful and your happiness is greatly multiplied. When you are feeling down, be thankful and youll soon be feeling much better.