...a thriller's toughest trick: carefully assembling everything we think we know, until it reveals the one thing we didn't see coming.

I love how you still think if you tell me to do something, I'll just check my brain at the door and do it.

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

He was red with anger, except where he was white with rage. When he spoke, his words seared through the air like so many knives, clipped as topiary, crisp as biscuits.

We're not all equal, it's simply not true. That isn't science.

(on asparagus) Europeans of the Renaissance swore by it as an aphrodisiac, and the church banned it from nunneries.

You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.

I have my name down for the Apple Watch and yoga. I know it's a cliché but I need that antidote, it helps with everything.

she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane for the dandy a century ago. It differentiated her from others.

We [people] spend so much time feeling so small and less than and insignificant and diminished because we see ourselves through our own lens.

In the mighty name of Jesus, all knees shall bow; all tongues shall confess! Now, in the name of Jesus, you are released!