Our task is to carry the Lord's peace into every situation, into every duty.

A writer must have all the confidence in the world when writing the first draft and none whatsoever when editing subsequent drafts.

Sometimes I need a place to ask myself impossible questions.

God answered prayers first by teaching the need to ask, second by using friends as holy messengers.

Alex had cooked, and coaxed, and helped Mark form borders around the shapeless days. Alex had given meaning to the word "servant".

For the Arab, the past does not merely live. The past defines the present.

I was thinking...""We know, " Pedro said, "It was like sitting next to a pressure cooker

His eyes touched lightly, and passed on.

He used a minimum of words and no inflection whatsoever. It was a policeman's manner of speaking, direct and unadorned.

It was typical of the American to identify the one unfinished strand.

Mark felt eyes on him as tight as a sniper's aim.

Behind every successful man is a surprised woman!

One can acquire everything in solitude but character.

By the late '70s I had come to question the point of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the CIA's overall charter.

There is no song to your singing.

Isn't it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?

I really like Roland Moret, Alexander McQueen and Marios Schwab, a young British designer.

The lightly-jumping, glowrin' trouts, That thro' my waters play.

Kids today are technologically sophisticated. In many families, they are far ahead of their parents

If I wanted to be a doctor today I'd go to math school not med school.

The ability to compromise is not a diplomatic politeness toward a partner but rather taking into account and respecting your partner's legitimate interests.