Emotional damage is never easy to measure, but mothers who are alive but psychically absent impose filial burdens which knot their children's feelings in a way biologic orphans are spared.

We can create transcending stories for readers and for us. Creativity is a double edge sword, which can kill the writer.

Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.

There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it.

Those who seek to please everybody please nobody.

On the other hand, the concept owes its meaning and its justification exclusively to the totality of the sense impressions which we associate with it.

Daily living by faith on Christ is what makes the difference between the sickly and the healthy Christian, between the defeated and the victorious saint.

Every White House I have covered since Reagan, when I got here, power has been more concentrated in the White House than the one before.

Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.

Read, learn, work it up, go to the literature. Information is control.

If a group of people - leaders - can convince a group of folk who barely have a pot to piss in that the rich shouldn't be taxed-- THAT is leadership!