It's a hard life sometimes and the biggest temptation is to let how hard it is be an excuse to weaken

That's what's wrong with women. They want you to wait for them until they get ready and then they don't even tell you how they feel.

If you know you don't have a win, then there's no use for you being in the game.

Reading is not optional.

America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.

And I see the - you know, when I go to the juvenile detention centers and prisons, I see people who can't read now. And I know that when they leave those prisons and those detention centers, they're not going to be able to make it in our society.

It is this language of values which I hope to bring to my books. . . . I want to bring values to those who have not been valued, and I want to etch those values in terms of the ideal. Young people need ideals which identify them, and their lives, as central . . . guideposts which tell them what they can be, should be, and indeed are.