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

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.

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

I'm alone and outgunned, scared and inexperienced, but I'm right.

May your glory shine so bright that the world sees God's light in all you do!

Mankind thinks only of living because he is dying, and it is only in dying that he gains his freedom to live

Isn't it awkward how some people constantly make fun of other people's weaknesses while ignoring to improve on theirs?

I'm very humbled and honored. I'm very thankful to the Asian-American Community for all their support!

And when the echoes had ceased, like a sense of pain was the silence.

It was easy to cover up ignorance by the mystical word "intuition.

I mean that you always know what results will come from one or another of your actions; but in a strange way you want to do one thing and get the result that could only come from another

Before you start trying to work out which direction the property market is headed, you should be aware that there are markets within markets.

I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.

Since there is absolutely no logical reason to assume there is an afterlife, I decided to make the life I have now as much fun as possible.