I loved the Godfather. I thought that was the best interpretation of our life that Ive ever seen. Godfather I and Godfather II - the other one stunk.

Never open your mouth,unless you're in the dentist chair

Truth is dangerous.

Sand castles just aren't made to last.

Education prepares to be one piece of a machine.

Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

I would love for people to think that I am as quick, clever, smart and heroic as the characters that I write, but those characters are characters.

How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!

There are three great truths, 1st, That there is a God; 2nd, That He has spoken to us in the Bible; 3rd, That He means what He says.

You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues.

The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.

We will all be better citizens when voting records of our Congressmen are followed as carefully as scores of pro-football games.