Some truths hit harder than others.

It was at that moment that I’d first begun to experience one of life’s deepest lessons: you are the most alive when you feel the most vulnerable, not when the arrow is still in the quiver but when it has been released by the string and is flying toward you.

All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee; All Chance, Direction, which thou canst not see; All Discord, Harmony not understood All partial Evil, universal Good. – ALEXANDER POPE, An Essay on Man.

A traveler enters the world into which he travels, but a tourist brings his own world with him and never sees the one he’s in.

Babes crying in the wilderness know that the world already has plenty of terrifying noise, but there aren't enough clear voices to smooth our troubled journey through the darkness ... only a few can speak truth to power.

The last best hope of life is that at some point during living it, all that you did wrong will suddenly teach you to do right.

I went to the Alabama public schools at a time when my English teachers, all but one of whom was a woman, taught nothing but the classics. They revered the great British and American writers.

I like characters who are changed, often for the better, by the dark nature of their experiences. I also can become engaged by a character for whom I wish to see justice done, one way or the other. In general, I require a book to have some sort of moral center.

Risk will always be a part of life. It's how we recognize this and deal with it that matters.

Life to me is defined by uncertainty. Uncertainty is the state in which we live, and there is no way to outfox it.