No power is strong enough to be lasting, if it labours under the weight of fear.

Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Story should be a descent -- the feeling that there is an intense gravity to the narrative that draws you down, down, down.

Donata Santori looked down at the dead body lying at her feet and thought, ‘Damn, that can’t be a good sign.

We grow to heaven. We don't go to heaven.

Kids love to be silly, they love to laugh, so I think it was natural for my kids to like the sort of books that I write - and it's the only kinds of books I'm capable of writing.

The Orlando Magic were so bad last season, the cheerleaders stayed home and phoned in their cheers.

For me, before I learned how to read I was really interested in story and in landscape and nature. I decided to become a writer almost as soon as I learned to read.

It had been an enormous, extraordinary, outrageous adventure. And it was deadly.

You are all over the map, figure out the top 5 things you want to focus on and get rid of the rest.

Have a spiritual basis which guides you in life. Have a philosophy of life to live by.