Although the District of Columbiahas had a ban on handgun sale and possession since 1976, Washingtonresidents are held hostage by the lax gun laws of surroundingjurisdictions.

You can't get around the image of people shooting at people toprotect their stores and it working. This is damaging to the [guncontrol] movement.

Americans are ready to hate somebody -- and it's going to be the gun industry.

The NRA is right...handgun controls do little to stop criminals from obtaining handguns.

Handguns are a public-health problem.

I am the shadow of the flame.

The words of men cannot be trusted, especially men like you!

Before I came out, I had a lot of anger. For years people would ask, 'How are you doing?' and I'd say, 'Good, fine.' It's show business, and that's what you have to show.

When you translate the American writers who are best with dialogue into German - someone like Elmore Leonard, or Tom Wolfe, who's also quite good with dialogue. It's very hard to translate them well.

A darkness different from Ember's, but just as frightening.

It is not enough to have knowledge; one must apply it. It is not enough to have wishes; one must also accomplish it.

I was the little, funny one. I felt I was the child among grown women.

Don’t shake…unless you’re ready to get shook!

Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education.

Prayer is - listening for the still small voice of God. Listening with the "ear of our hearts."