I was tired of secrets, tired of seeing things I was not supposed to see. And so I just cried.

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

If only I could fallsound asleep and wake up in my old reality!

Every new generation believes its own period to be absolutely superior intellectually - greater than all past cultures yet equal among its modern cultures.

The head thinks. The heart knows.

Heavenly Father, I live my life for your glory.

They had kissed so often in lust, in passion, but never like this.This felt like a renewal, a pledge… A beginning.

Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.

The story goes on in the sense that at a most basic level, the United States ignored, that is violated, the United Nations charter when it invaded Iraq in 2003. This is not wise policy.

I don't like to have to pan for gold when I read.

I love coming to work. I never have a bad day.

Don't you think that a lot of designers get into fashion because they have something about themselves that they don't like?