When I encourage someone, I see it as an investment in their resilience.

She felt the phrase “demand her rights” had lain inside her forever, waiting.

We make a living by what we give

How you do money is how you do life.

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

It's better to be nominated for awards than not to be nominated for them, but of course to some degree such awards [National Book Award] are always subjective.

You have to be selfish to be an actor.

There clearly are contacts between al Qaeda and Iraq that can be documented; there clearly is testimony that some of the contacts have been important contacts and that there's a relationship here

So, I would appeal to my fellow Americans by saying, the only real road to progress for free people is through the process of law and that is the road that America will travel.

Mortal men ask God for good things every day, but they never pray that they may make good use of them.

The financial system as a whole has had the characteristics of a Ponzi scheme if we look at it fundamentally.