The good guys had to operate on a higher level than the killers--just for society to keep track of who was who.

Maybe the trying is the thing. Maybe it doesn't get better than that. Maybe you never quite get there. And maybe that's okay.

The truth will set you free. Unless you're guilty.

Deep down, everyone wants the truth.

A jealous husband is an ugly thing.

What was it about not knowing a person that allowed you to wonder whether she might be the answer to all your problems?

The irrational thoughts were the ones with the power to burn holes in your gut.

What about my rights? What about a person's privacy? Did all that just go to hell after 9/11?

Nothing overdone, nothing racy, which made her all the more alluring.

A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.

Don't let them tell us stories.

How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.

Corrupt officials are usually close-mouthed and open-handed.

But Jesus always leaves the ninety-nine to chase after the one. He always searches for the one lost coin.

I think the politics have gotten better in the United States, which makes it easier to pass legislation, budgets and treaties.

My father always told me, you can only be your own best. In other words, if you feel you've done your best, you've done well enough.

I had a newspaper in Flint, Michigan called the 'Flint Voice,' and so it was a, you know, underground, alternative newspaper that I edited and put out for about ten years.

To teach in order to lead others to faith is the task of every preacher and of each believer.

In terms of security for wildlife and our society, it's an incredibly alarming situation, and we need to address that.