I am currently reading, "The Broker" by John Grisham. it is alittle slow to start so I will have to let you know if it gets better

In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.

One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers.

You live your life today, Not tommorow, and certainly not yesterday.

Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.

Jesus preached more and taught more about helping the poor and the sick and the hungry than he did about heaven and hell. Shouldn't that tell us something?

When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious.

If you're gonna be stupid you gotta be tough.

When you work at street level you never know who's going to walk through your door.

Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it.

judge not that ye be not judged

It’s life. You don’t figure it out. You just climb up on the beast and ride.

God is the ROCK of all ages.

Magically, hopelessness gives rise to profound hope.

Roxanne Quimby wanted money and power, and I was just a pillar on the way to that success.

Things were somehow so good that they were in danger of becoming very bad because what is fully mature is very close to rotting

The devil loves and always rejoices over the ungoverned; those who are not subject to one who has power, under God, to help them and to give them a hand.

Presents of love fear not to be ill taken of strangers.

Cycling, cycling forever bear, wolf, caribou. When had it all started, where will it end? We are all part of one, from such simple beginnings and yet all so different. Yet one. One and again.

I only need to know one thing. Am I going to need the flamethrower?

I always keep my mind open. For me, a mind has to work like like a parachute, works only if it's open.