I hated the tests the raised hopes and failed expectations.

I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.

My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day.

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

So sad! This is the saddest part when you lose someone you love- that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, Is this the same person I lost?

I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.

Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.

I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength..."strongest wind cannot be seen."

How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently?

Libraries are the pride of the city.

Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.

Human life is created in God's image, and that makes it sacred.

The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive.

Whenever I wasn't watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.

Life is one big question when your starin at the clock.

Hillary Clinton did not represent, on a lot of policy matters, what the American public perceived to be as a change.

The wages of sin are an expensive infection.

I'm usually not the straight guy. I'm sometimes more the funny guy, depending on the situation.

Our examples of enduring hardship are often more powerful than our stories of success and triumph.

When the government allocates monopoly rights to frequency, and there are only a handful in each community, it's picking the winners in the competition.

In the world there are believers and then there are non-believers. For all of you non-believers out there, I have something to say to you...never underestimate the heart of a champion.