The past is an unsolved mystery and the truth a moving target.

True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.

Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.

Friends are family you choose.

To entrust to an editor a story over which you have labored and to which your name and reputation are attached can be like sending your daughter off for an evening with Ted Bundy.

A young city, Miami lacks the history, the roots, and the traditions of other major metropolitan areas. Everybody here is from someplace else.

Everybody seems normal, till you get to know them.

Fear is like water. You need it. And it's good for you, as long as you have the right amount.

Books are like your children. They take nine months to write; the manuscript weighs six pounds and...you send them out into the world and hope that some day they'll send back money.

Love is so fragile and so often fatal. I am amazed when people are brave enough to risk it.

If not for bad luck we'd have no luck at all.

I know the best moments can never be captured on film, even as I spend nearly half my life trying to do just that.

When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live.

Iraq will not allow any action on its soil that could harm the U.S. We don't want any action from our soil to target our neighbors.

I'm privileged to have followed Sir Matt because all you have to do is to try and maintain the standards that he set so many years ago.

The species of anti-Enlightenment religion we find among evangelical protestants is far more impoverished, anti-intellectual and downright wretched.

Before you kill something make sure you have something better to replace it with.

If you had to choose only two qualities to get you through times of change, the first should be a sense of self-worth and the second a sense of humor.

Right answers to difficult questions are better than wrong answers to difficult questions.

You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win.

When our attitude towards ourselves is big, and our attitude toward others is generous and merciful, we attract big and generous portions of success.