Power is neither male nor female.

Live each day as if your life had just begun.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you.

Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

Without needing told, without Jacob's lead, Akando dropped to his knees and lunged into the throne room of Christ.

Well, I'm glad we don't have to play in the shade.

The New York Federal Reserve is a tool of the big banks.

Hillary Clinton's got bad judgment, and honestly, so bad that she should never be president of the United States.

Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn't know it's dead.

The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers

Something magical happened when I turned 25 - I looked in the mirror and was like, 'You might not get carded for an R-rated movie anymore.' Like I didn't have a little stick figure anymore.

Business and human endeavors are systems...we tend to focus on snapshots of isolated parts of the system. And wonder why our deepest problems never get solved.

I can be quite surprised by what makes me cry, but it's usually spiritual things.

I like dark subject matter. I'm not sure what that means about me!