I see people getting so caught up in celebrating diversity that they are neglecting their commonality. I don't see this as a good thing. The Chinese culture has survived for more than five thousand years in part because the Chinese have embraced the same language and culture. I hope I am wrong about this, and that the flame is still on beneath the great American melting pot. Americans need each other, and a house divided, no matter the color of its occupants, is still divided. And divided we all fall.

We can only lose what we have first claimed.

At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction.

Magna est veritas, et praevalebit: truth is mighty, and will prevail

The more someone assures you that everything is okay, the more you can be assured that it's not.

I've yet to read a love story that compares with mine.

Feelings can be like wild animals-we underrate how fierce they are until we've opened their cage