I started writing stories in my spare time.

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.

The Holy Spirit connecting with your spirit will begin to induce and stimulate your spirit to reveal to you all that the Lord has put in you

She is the weakness you think of as strength while I am the strength you have no idea is there.

It is almost certain that excess in eating is the cause of almost all the diseases of the body, but its effects on the soul are even more disastrous.

We have never arrived. We are in a constant state of becoming.

My acting career began at age three and my parents got me into it. I was in a McDonald's commercial.

I've been thinking about forever

It takes just as little time to see the positive side of life as it does the negative side.

Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light.

People can look at me any way they want to. If somebody meets me and hangs out with me, they can see what kind person I am. I can't change for people.

Net Neutrality' is Obamacare for the Internet; the Internet should not operate at the speed of government.