A voice speaks to each of us in the still silent places - a voice that tells us to stand, to have courage, to do what is right.

Courage is nothing more than taking one step more than you think you can.

Actions have consequences... first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible for your own actions.

Anything designed to be inoffensive isn't worth your time -- life itself is pretty offensive, ending as it does with death.

I have never yet figured out what to do about good advice that you get, and that you know right away would help you, but that you cannot follow.

Adventures are only interesting once you've lived to see the end of them. Before that, they are nothing but fear, and being too cold or too hot or too wet or too hungry, and getting hurt.

Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy.

If you have dreams you want to pursue, the time is now. There is no perfect time, and there is no better time. There is only the time you lose while you're making excuses.

You must learn to face the fact, always, that you choose to do what you do, and that everything you do affects not only you but others.

The only place you will be accepted is the place you make for yourself.

The definition of a writing career, is write a book, write another book, write another book

Maybe I'll just give up on boys. Okay, maybe not. I mean they're just so cute!

A Moment, however small, defines an expression.

Life as it should be: all friends, all art, all music, all love, all the time.

Too many whites still see blacks as a group apart.

When a Jew, in America or in South Africa, talks to his Jewish companions about 'our' government, he means the government of Israel.

You are God's dream with skin on

There is too little public recognition of how much we all depend upon farmers as stewards of our soil, water and wildlife resources.

I'm not a big prop actor.

Each and every day, Israel remains on the frontline along with the United States in the War on Terror and is nothing but an unabashed ally of pro-democratic and pro-American policy.

If you don't see the Internet as an opportunity, it will become a threat. In two or three year's time, the Internet will become as commonplace in the office as the telephone.