Let's face it. you become a deeper person amidst adversity. You become a more perceptive, strong, resilient person when life is not handed to you on a silver platter held by a butler.

A country road, a gravel road, is a sign of civilization, sure, but it’s just a farm, an easy conquest. Iron means a stronghold, people who can defend what’s theirs.

When you GIVE under “compulsion” or “Grudgingly” you are giving under the LAW of giving and NOT the GRACE given for giving.

Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence.

What you accept in victory, you must accept in defeat.

We will drain the swamp in Washington, D.C., and replace it with a new government, of, and by, and for the people.

Even after The Kite Runner was published I continued to practice for another eighteen months. But I had always had a love of writing and a compulsion to do it.

It is true if you believe it to be true.

El Salvador has the scenery of northern California and the climate of southern California plus - and this was a relief - no Californians.

Above all things, reverence yourself.

I've been so in my moment about my life.