Reading is by far the most successful pursuit of happiness.

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

Human language falls short of expressing all that He is, even as a thimble lacks capacity to hold Niagara Falls.

The body can be a marvel of resiliency, a cactus when it comes to sleep - capable of surviving on mere drops.

If you are old enough to feel angst about how a holiday “feels, ” you are very likely no longer in the target demographic.

Before Elijah could raise a nation from the dead, he raised just one dead child.

A real foolproof way to do it is play your stuff by hook or by crook and build up a grass roots following

Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.

Our society is not one of spectacle but of surveillance.

I'm a lifer, yeah... I can honestly say I'm a lifer.

You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition.

In New York alone, there was an average of more than 300 campus fires per year between 1997 and 2000, with roughly 160 of them annually in dormitories.