The failure of political leaders to help uplift the poor will be judged a moral failure.
Follow your heart. It rarely leads you astray. It's thinking that gets us into trouble.
A concerted effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link to our cultural, educational, aesthetic, inspirational and economic legacies - all of the things that quite literally make us who we are.
If all my friends jumped off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them. I'd be at the bottom, hoping to catch them.
It's the circumstances that create fear. How you respond is all you can control. Concentrate on that, and you'll always succeed.
Say it, do it, preach it, shout it, but never, absolutely never, believe your own bullshit.
If what you know and what you love are the same thing, that's great. But if not, write what you love. I love history, secrets, conspiracies, action, adventure, international settings.
Friendship is blessed on trust, without it there is nothing.
My life has been a series of emergencies.
Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt.
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.