Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America - land of the free, home of the brave.

I've just finished my 20th book this past year and I'm working on my 21st book about the Middle East right now that I'll finish this year. And I get up early in the morning and when I get tired of the computer and tired of doing research, I walk 20 steps out to my woodshop and I either build furniture or paint paintings. I'm an artist too.

Jimmy Carter

In my soul, humanity is a single part, a big gentle bird whose song I use to sing every early morning in the silence of the Universe.

Mariana Fulger

He comes down next to me, and when I hold out my hand, he takes it. Our fingers lace together. And in that feeling, that perfect feeling of our hands and fingers pressed together, I want to tell him everything. I want to tell him about Josh, and his sister, Emily. I want to tell him about tall, crazy Gert. I want to tell him about bridges and funerals, and most of all, maps. More than anything else, I want to tell him about myself. I want to tell him that I know what things look like from above now. There's so much I want to tell him, because I know he'll understand.

Shawn Klomparens

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.

Klaus Kinski

There was an old man of Quebec,Who was buried in snow to his neck.When asked,

Rudyard Kipling

If you read the first page of one of my novels, I can guarantee that you will read the last one. This isn't just social commentary. This is also about writing good page-turners. I want people to keep reading.

Jodi Picoult

I'm trying to do the best I can. I'm not concerned with tomorrow, but with what goes on today.

Mark Spitz

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

Carl Sagan

Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom

Samuel Johnson

The great consolation in life is to say what one thinks.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

Injuries obviously change the way you approach the game.

Brett Favre

The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.

Alice James