But the lesson of Abraham's story is that God demands the best we have to offer, that which is most precious to us.

Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer.

Why do you have to be the same as the others? ...Most of them are stupid.

She loved him because he had brought her back to life. She had been like a caterpillar in a cocoon, and he had drawn her out and shown her that she was a butterfly.

When you've lost everything, you've got nothing to lose.

Having faith in God did not mean sitting back and doing nothing. It meant believing you would find success if you did your best honestly and energetically.

The CIA's research program is described in a book called "The Search for the Manchurian Candidate."

Trusting someone was like holding a little water in your cupped hands - it was so easy to spill the water, and you could never get it back.

The degradation to which you subject others comes back, sooner or later, to haunt you.

In my books, women often solve the problem. Even if the woman is not the hero, she's a strong character. She does change the plot. She'll often rescue the male character from some situation.

In both cases, weakness and scruples had defeated strength and ruthlessness.

A man’s life is not qualified by how much wealth, power, pleasure or control he has, but by the values of godliness he possesses.

When the truth emerges, it can’t be ignored. Nor will it wait.

It was mortifying to find how strong the habit of idle speech may become in one’s self. One need not always be saying something in this noisy world.

When energy prices go up, the difficulty of projecting demand also goes up - uncertainty goes up.

Education is a seamless web: one level of learning relates to every other.

Enlightenment is the complete awareness of life without mental modifications.

Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing.

I will be silent and will hear what God will say in me...If God wishes to speak to me, let him enter. I will not go out.

The ocean does something to me that is unexplainable. Just being out there and realizing im alive.

Ah, how many luxuries has the good God prepared for his Jewish children.