Look somewhere else for someone who can follow you in your researches about numbers. For my part, I confess that they are far beyond me, and I am competent only to admire them.

If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.

We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.

Don't try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.

There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.

Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.

Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.

What do you want to trust me with tonight?" A sigh escaped forcefully, waving the white flag that I was a melted, scorched woman at those words. "Anything, " I whispered back.

Writing is like painting. You sketch it, add colour, add depth and detail. You give it a final layer and then hang it proudly.

For the writer, madness should seep slowly out of them from the world they endure each day.

Marriage is about love, but it is not first and foremost about love. First and foremost, marriage is about continuity and transmission.

I have an amazing family. I was raised in a wonderful mid-west family.

I've had to grow up with everyone watching me, which has been hard.

I'm not here to discuss the past. I'm here to be positive...

I thought Gen. McChrystal was unfireable, that his position was secure.

Speaking as a writer, I'm not interested in trends, I want to write books that are honest, with characters as true to the inner world of the story as I can make them.