A young man's ambition, can there be a more fleeting prospect?

In every thriller written about Washington, particularly after 9/11, there are good guys and there are bad guys, and there's no gray area at all.

Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?

I'm scattered, and then that last hundred pages, bam, I'm a laser.

But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.

It's not the beginning or the destination that counts. It's the ride in between.

Libraries rock! Not a sermon, just a fact. As a kid I was a library rat and books changed my life. They can change yours.

Today might not be so good. But tomorrow, you got another chance to get it right.

Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur.

Two people can care for each other but not want the same things.

When a poor man gives something, that is a sacrifice indeed. When a rich man gives something, it hardly rises to the same level.

You'll be bereft without me.

Training is an active, dynamic process lived out daily in all areas of life- not a rote exercise in memorizing verses and going to church every week.

I was on leave from local and regional politics, as long as I was a Minister.

Have you considered that system of holy lies and pious frauds that has raged and triumphed for 1,500 years?

Win back America for God.

Believe in yourself, learn, and never stop wanting to build a better world.

There came a day when the clouds drifting along with the wind aroused a wanderlust in me, and I set off on a journey to roam along the seashores

You have to learn how to care about people without taking on all of their problems.

Patience is timing, just being humble and being the most quiet person in the room.

As a gardener, I'm among those who believe that much of the evidence of God's existence has been planted.