Ultimately, knowing God and reading the Word, it helps with patience with people, understanding, empathy and sympathy that they might not have that I have. If God gave it to me, why not exercise it?

Live, laugh, and love!! Blessings!!

I have family members that are bipolar. One had a case recently that I witnessed, and it was very, very helpful.

One thing I learned particularly at Yale was how to work with others

One thing I learned particularly at Yale was how to work with others. Having studied so long trying to master myself, the biggest challenge was learning about the other person's work.

Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with.

It’s bad enough . . . when a country gets colonized, but when the people do as well! That’s the end, really, that’s the end.

Dead or not, I have come for his heart and I will have it.

For years and years I thought that stories were just practice, till I got time to write a novel.

The enemies of freedom will not prevail.

Her eyes met his, but she looked quickly away; entangling gazes with Will was confusing at best, dizzying at worst.

While it may not be a simple act, offering forgiveness not only has the power to heal relationships, it strengthens the well-being of those who give this life-changing gift.

I'm a real pawn-shopper.

The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.

To catch a wave, to stand up - it was just life-changing. There was nothing that even came close. I quit playing all other sports - by the time I was eleven, they were toast.