I couldn't join a party that, frankly, tolerates members who are bigots for one thing, homophobes, racists.
How can I no longer bear my weary doom? Alas! what have I gain'd for all I lost?
Distrust my wisdom, but regard my truth.
Love and hope are twins.
The full-blown rose, mid dewy sweets Most perfect dies.
Fragrant o'er all the western groves The tall magnolia towers unshaded.
I am often asked why I use a variety of pen names. The answer is that this way readers always know which of my three worlds they will be entering when they pick up one of my books.
The reality is that we have missed a lot of opportunities in Iraq because of a failed policy.
If I should say the sweetest speech with the eloquentest tongue that ever was in man, I were not able to express that restless care which I have ever bent to govern for the greatest wealth.
Repentance is like antiseptic. You pour antiseptic onto a wound and, at first, it stings. Then it heals.