All sport... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.

I make no apologies for the fact that I have a religious life of my own. I'm speaking as a Christian because I'm speaking as myself.

Choose beliefs that serve your soul - choose beliefs that serve the grander dream of who you choose to be.

With terrorist groups like al Qaeda, you can't learn what you want to learn about their capabilities and their future plans by taking a picture of it, and they've learned not to use the telephone.

Easier to climb up, than to just hang on.

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

After I convinced them that I was a harmless novelist, I actually got them to give me a tour of the harem - which is usually off limits for tourists.

Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow.

Joy always came after pain.

We have to keep in mind that it's not just about the numbers of people who died; it's also the manner which many of these victims met their deaths.

Pacifists are like sheep who believe that wolves are vegetarians.

For the most part, Americans speak of culture and politics as if they were two separate realms.