We believe in individual merit as a means of gaining salvation

Learn to love the sunrise and sunset, the beating of rain on the roof and windows, and the gentle fall of snow on a winter day.

Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind it forces you to stretch your own.

Every puff was like sucking in the abyss, yet he inhaled until his lungs filled with toxic smoke that clouded his thoughts of her.

Energy cogeneration on Capitol Hill makes economic and environmental sense and should be pursued for those reasons.

Judges are not members of Congress, they're not state legislators, governors, nor presidents. Their job is not to pass laws, implement regulations, nor to make policy.

My fondness for extended monologue might have been encouraged by two decades of writing stage and radio dramas.

Had I not had children of my own, I would have never written books for children, nor would I have been capable of doing so.

If the world is ending, a woman will want to fix her hair. If the world's ending, a woman will take the time to tell a man something he's done wrong.

I came into this world restless despite many appearances to the contrary. Does that make me unique? I doubt it.

The best thing you can say about any coach is his players play hard for him.

On the other hand, hope is subversive, for it limits the grandiose pretension of the present, daring to announce that the present to which we have all made commitments is now called into question.