... nothing that happened could ever hurt the most important part of her, nothing that happened outside herself could ever make her less than what God had meant for her to be.

No one starts out with the answers. You figure them out as you go and you learn from the people who figured them out before you.

If you're not at least willing to die for something- something that really matters- in the end, you die for nothing.

If someone from the government tries to put his hands on your money... run away as fast as you can and tell the nearest conservative.

You know what it's like," said Storm, "when you want to--just--pour a woman into a glass and--just-drink her--just drink her down, one gulp, body and soul?

Good things might happen in your life or bad things might happen, sometimes terrible things, but no matter what happens, your soul is your own. And no one and nothing can stop you.

This isn't just 'the way things are.' This is the way you made them. This is the result of your choices, your actions. Yours.

Do right. Fear Nothing.

The trouble with straw men is it only takes a single match to set them ablaze.

They'd put the anesthesia mask on him, and the next instant he was in the recovery room. It was a blackout so complete, it made him doubt the immortality of the soul.

You know what it's like, " said Storm, "when you want to--just--pour a woman into a glass and--just-drink her--just drink her down, one gulp, body and soul?

I don't feel any shame I won't apologize if there ain't nowhere you can go running away from pain when you've been victimized tales from another broken home.

The life that brings light in the family often attracts darkness in form of envy and hatred that stands as encumbrances

Gratitude becomes spiritual, a spiritual virtue and a spiritual emotion, when we are moved in our response by a God-centered view of the three: gift, recipient, and giver. – p. 56

'Home Alone' was a movie, not an alibi.

I believe the greatest achievements of your life lie ahead of you.

Baseball is our national game.

Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved.

Basic research is like shooting an arrow in the air and, where it lands, painting a target.

As a writer, I find holidays often disturbing, not liberating, in their disruption of tempo, their open-ended time.

In setting goals and executing a strategy, Wanda is sophisticated. We have good systems and departments. If targets are not reached, a yellow light goes off.