To read and write will help you understand life. . .to sew and mend will help you survive it.

Even a snail will eventually reach its destination.

Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There's no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving.

Everything seems simpler from a distance.

Beauty exists where you least expect to find it.

Sometimes you can’t let go of the past without facing it again.

Do you think a champion is made out of thin air? It’s through the hardships you endure that you’ll gain real strength.

It is not an act of bravery to try to save your own village. It is an instinct to protect what you possess. Bravery is when you step in to help when you have nothing to lose.

I also find doing the mundane, everyday things in life has a calming, creative influence on me. Some of my best ideas come when I'm vacuuming or waiting in lines.

To have strength without knowing how to use it means nothing.

Just remember, Every day of your lives, you must always be sure what you’re fighting for.

Tell all the Truth, but tell it slant/Success in Circuit lies...

An excuse will not wake up early

If a book is well written, I always find it too short.

Nothing is whole, not for too damned long. The world is half night.

From the back came an unearthly, satisfied chuckle. All I could see in the rearview mirror was a dark shadow with red goat-slitted eyes. Fear slithered throu

Democracy means that you have the right to vote without intimidation and undue burdens.

I find myself writing protagonists who do feel pretty cut off from others but who want to make connections and aren't very good at it.

When you play this game twenty years, go to bat ten-thousand times, and get three-thousand hits, do you know what that means? You've gone zero for seven-thousand.

If a religion is not universal, it cannot be eternal. A narrow religion, a sectarian religion, an exclusive religion can live only for a limited time and a limited purpose.

The Obama administration's plan is to have the Federal Reserve regulate banks that might pose a 'systemic risk' if they were to fail.