Poverty is a great equalizer

In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.

One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers.

You live your life today, Not tommorow, and certainly not yesterday.

Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.

Jesus preached more and taught more about helping the poor and the sick and the hungry than he did about heaven and hell. Shouldn't that tell us something?

When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious.

If you're gonna be stupid you gotta be tough.

When you work at street level you never know who's going to walk through your door.

Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it.

judge not that ye be not judged

Tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.

On teacher education: induction into current mandates must not turn into seduction away from best practice.

Listen to me carefully. You can become a legend. But it starts today!

Will you come with me, sweet Reader? I thank you. Give me your hand.

There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?

The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies fast away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and women, old age is upon us.

Keep your temper, said the Caterpillar.

I think the diversity of authors and readers is expanding, which is wonderful, because it means the type of story being told is also expanding.