Pain is an inevitable part when you truly love.

...truly loving someone is making that person happy even if you’re not the reason behind it.

It was impossible to quarrel with words, whose tremulous inequality showed indisposition so plainly.

The joyous clamor in my mind drowned out the strange sound outside the car: a humming noise that was gathering speed and growing louder, a roar that was not the waves curling up the beach.

To be a leader is to communicate constantly, skillfully, intentionally, and strategically

I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances - from my grave even more successfully and more irrefutably than in my lifetime.

In the end, I've found, people like the direct approach. It's much more valuable to them to have a leader who's absolutely clear and open than to have one who soft-soaps or talks in circles.

By the mid-70s, I wanted to get out of the business. I was tired anyway.

I thought the only lonely place was on the moon.

Three English bulldogs count for one kid.

Most of my life has been one tragedy after another, most of which hasn't happened.

God's wisdom means that God always chooses the best goals and the best means to those goals.