Prayer may be a placebo for the disease of helplessness, but placebos can make you feel better.

Nothing attunes you to the beauty of the quotidian like a man who decides not to kill you after all

A book can’t be a half-fantasy any more than a woman can be half pregnant

The empowered may serve justice, remodel the Earth, transform lush nations into smoking battlefields, and bring down skyscrapers, but power itself is amoral.

Power and moneyLike Pooh Bear and honeyStick fast.

Not a clue – and, no, I don’t touch drugs. The world’s unstable enough without scrambling your brain for kicks.

Nonfiction that smells like fiction is neither.

Books’ll be back, ” Esther-in-Unalaq predicts. “Wait till the power grids start failing in the 2030s and the datavats get erased. It’s not far away. The future looks a lot like the past.

The Future, ” says Ian, in a film-trailer voice. “Coming soon, to a Present near you.

Here’s the truth: Who is spared love is spared grief.

And grade every simile and metaphor from one star to five, and remove any threes or below. It hurts when you operate, but afterwards you feel much better.

I now remembered that Mrs. Todd had told me one day that Captain Littlepage had overset his mind with too much reading.

Do not hate someone else’s ‘shine’…but have enough courage to look in the mirror and see the truth for what it is.

The Inexhaustible Resource of Spirit is equal to every demand. There is no reality in lack. Abundance is here and now manifest.

Just recognize that you are not going to become a comfortable public speaker overnight. It can take a long time.

The United Nations has come under the control of outlaw nations and self-serving special interest groups.

A believer to another believer is like two hands, one washes the other (correcting each other).

I've always been an encourager at heart.

Life grows lovely where you are.

Beware of the danger signals that flag problems: silence, secretiveness, or sudden outburst.

I wanted to continue to be active on those things that I cared about when I was president where I could still have an impact.