All nights end, and all storms clear. The only storms that last are those within your own soul.

Clarity is often found in stillness.

We best teach what we ourselves have learned.

The wise man understands his weakness and seeks to find a lesson from it. The fool lets it control and destroy him.

I really do enjoy getting out to meet my readers. Writing is such a solitary business, it's gratifying to thank folks in person and really connect as human beings and not just words on a screen.

Fear makes people do cruel things, things they'll be ashamed of later

It's an old and honored tradition for war heroes to be promoted to important offices, whether or not they're suited to it

It was never a big leap from "unfamiliar" to "suspected

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

We have a real role in how our own collective lives, our nation, and our world and society turn out. Seizing those opportunities is important, and disasters are sometimes one of those opportunities.

I lived for 10 years in Los Angeles, and the one element that surpasses everything else - that you are very conscious of - is fear. You can smell it.

No truth can be said to be seen as it is until it is seen in its relation to all other truths. In this relation only is it true.

There may or may not be atheists in foxholes, but I'm certain there are none in the Ku Klux Klan.

Actually, I'm going to nerd out on you, so prepare.

I have awards right now that I do not remember walking on stage to get.

Political system is contrary to everything a feminine heart stands for. It lacks tenderness. It lacks poetry. It doesn't nurture. It doesn't love. And without those things, a woman's soul is bereft.

I don't have too much time for fiction.

God likes to listen favorably to the prayers of His faithful, particularly when they look at Christ's body