But that was the thing about courage. Sometimes you had to fake it to feel it.

If you both care for each other more than you care for yourself, your marriage will endure all.

Are you educated in the art of medicine?” Yeah, the art of Walgreens and Urgent Care. “A bit, ” I hedged.

I nodded, pretending to be a hundred times more courageous than I felt.But that was the thing about courage. Sometimes you had to fake it to feel it.

We all have freedom of choice. Over and over again, minute by minute. How will you live your life? For yourself Or for others? For something good? For love?

Fantasizing about an Italian hottie was far better than my normal dreams.

fortes fortuna adiuvat, " Marcello had said to his men. Fortune favors the brave, the bold.

Okay, try this on for size, Tall, Dark and Handsome. I won't be born for almost seven hundred hundred years. How's that strike you?

Loyalty is not loyalty unless one clings to it in the face of adversity.

The identification of fantasy is always an attempt to avoid one's own suffering: the identification of art is the sharing in the suffering of another.

Hope is a light diet but very stimulating.

Progress does not compel us to settle centuries-long debates about the role of government for all time, but it does require us to act in our time.

Today, MTV doesn't play videos anymore, but YouTube certainly has become the next MTV.

President Bush is going to establish elections there in Iraq. He's going to rebuild the infrastructure. He's going to create jobs. He said if it works there, he'll try it here.

The white spruce forest along the banks is most inspiring, magnificent here. Down the terraced slopes and right to the water's edge on the alluvial soil it stands in ranks.

Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world.

The advance of freedom is the great story of our time

Fear is a scavenger who feeds on the future; on what may be and what is possible, extending down the line of our lives.

I get stage fright with short stories. For me it feels like standup comedy: kill or die. I'm more confident when I begin a novel because I know I have space to fail.