We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.

No love is greater than that of a father for His son.

Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.

I love the gray area between right and wrong.

Our minds sometimes see what our hearts wish were true.

Nobody tells you what you can and can't do.

Neutrinos have mass? i didn't even know they're Catholic!" Robert to Vittoria

…In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.

Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.

Sometimes a change of perspective is all it takes to see the light.

The human mind has a primitive ego defense mechanism that negates all realities that produce too much stress for the brain to handle. It’s called Denial.

If you are not a Conchie, what are you man?' demanded the Major.After some moments' thought, Francis said, 'I am a human being who does not believe in killing my fellow man for insufficient reason.

I will live a joyful simple life, doing what I love.

In the eight years before I became governor, there was zero net private sector job growth in New Jersey. Zero. For eight years.

At birth the Devil touched my tongue.

The devil's one object is so to depress God's people that he can go to the man of the world and say: There are God's people. Do you want to be like that?

Happy the man who from the sea escapes the storm and finds harbor.

Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow.

I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals.

I have thought for many years that the audience any creative writer imagines has a great effect on what gets written.

Rather than getting nostalgic...embrace the new opportunities and challenges available to you now.