Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.

Hate can only flourish where love is absent.

It is difficult to give children a sense of security unless you have it yourself. If you have it, they catch it from you.

It is just as important, perhaps more important, for the teacher to have the benefit of personal counseling when he needs it as it is for the student.

What is left when honor is lost?

И на съвършените съвършенството е несъвършено. Св. Иоан Лествичник

That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.

The most important parts of building a family are "God's Love" and "Meaningful Friendships.

I don't want to think my life as a career.

My teaching forces me to articulate what I think works in a piece of fiction and how I think it works. All of that gives me energy as a writer.

Your identity is like your shadow: not always visible and yet always present.

I was an observer. I liked to listen rather than openly express myself. This trait is something that I've retained over the years.

I'm going to go back and find out where the money is. The money is not getting down there.

Out Milky Way is the dwelling; the nebulae are the city.