the most radical question which anyone can be asked is not how much their possessions cost, but whether they have found something of value - that is, something that makes living worthwhile.

I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.

The citizens must be certain that the governor is attending to the duties for which he was elected.

I don't know what the NFL's going to look like in 15 years. Who knows. It's a great game; it's done a lot for me in my life.

Cancer is a scary thing and you have to deal with it seriously.

When you looked up to the sky and cried 'Why?' sometimes the sky shrugged, yet other times it answered with warm assurance of linked hands.

The only way to make the right decision is to find out which is the wrong decision, to examine that other path without fear, and only then decide.

Make the choice that you want to be happy. You owe it to yourself and you owe it to other people too.

Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such.

I am aiming my books at anybody with no economics background.

The desert is a place of bones, where the innards are turned out, to desiccate into dust.