If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not recognize it when it arrives.

The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Big results require big ambitions.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Dogs bark at what they don't understand.

Change alone is unchanging.

Those who are awake all live in the same world. Those who are asleep live in their own worlds.

What is divine escapes men's notice because of their incredulity.

Those who approach life like a child playing a game, moving and pushing pieces, possess the power of kings.

Sometimes silence can kill that a sword cannot

A woman without her sister is like a bird without her wings.

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

The mob gets out of hand, runs wild, worse than raging fire, while the man who stands apart is called a coward.

I still love a variety of kinds of music.

May God our Lord never let me harm anyone when I cannot help him!

In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.

No matter how bad the truth is, it doesn't tear you apart inside like dishonesty.

We are the modern day gladiators.