Something critical is missing in places that care for broken and needy people if the only people there are also broken and needy.

Dominate in your domain You can do it.

I began to have an idea of my life not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.

If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire.

What you were yesterday is fixed for always, making its mark on what you are today, what you will be tomorrow.

Woo-hoo! I'm 40. I can say that now.

As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which they are entitled.

Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot.

The key to a healthy life is having a healthy mind.

I am not retiring until every American agrees with me, and there's some work still to be done on this.

This is one where you can just kind of go to the tape on it. But Governor [Mike] Pence said inarguably Vladimir Putin is a better leader than President [Barack] Obama.