Bravery isn't brandishing a sword. It's standing your moral ground and letting others try their best to take you down.

Read the right books and we can be as wild and worry-free as we've ever wanted to be. No law can stop us reading.

One day, I decided I was going to write books forever.

You have to know your own mind inside out before you can know the minds of others.

The fear of not being remembered is a dangerous thing.

I’m proud to be a writer. I’m doing the job all my heroes did.

One man’s fight is another man’s freedom.

Reality was dawning on him and he hated reality. If you were him, so would you.

No matter what the good boys tell you, criminality is not a level playing field.

Katie soon learned there was a problem with hope.

First time I ever put pen to paper, I had one goal – to build something no one had ever thought of before.

Human beings are not seamless smooth creations, they have insoluble parts, and the closer you look the more mysterious they become.

Because you’re not a one-night girl, Irish.” (...) “You’re my forever girl.

Learning to distinguish the illegal immigrant from the legal immigrant does not solve the problem of illegal immigration.

The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the language or design of the Constitution.

Yes, I know it. In the darkness of my dark beating heart, I know. He'd have loved it alright. You see? Even Death Has A Heart.

In any case, you can't turn back the clock.

It is not the thing on which we spend the most time that moulds us, but the thing that exerts the greatest power. Five minutes with God and His Word is worth more than all the rest of the day.

I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not.

Never blame others for tracking in mud, until you have checked your own feet.

The faster you go, the more students you leave behind. It doesn't matter how much or how fast you teach. The true measure is how much students have learned.