Sometimes, I think if you get away from what you're called to do, it's more of a distraction.
I think how you start the day many times determines what kind of day you're going to have.
My belief as a Christian is when we receive Christ as salvation, that that gives us a guarantee for Heaven.
Sometimes when you take strong stands, if you're not called to do it, you're dividing the audience you're trying to reach.
Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
The fun of the Super Bowl is the week leading into it; once it's actually played, the story dies down very, very quickly.
There's no light at the end of the tunnel in the Republican message, no promise of better things to come. There's only the present stagnation, followed by a slow decline.
Some candidates need to say provocative things that make noise to break through the media muffle and get themselves noticed.
By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class.
I keep waiting for the day in which everyone who loves 'Downton Abbey' will realize they were actually watching a historical romance novel.
To this day, 'The Duke and I' remains particularly close to my heart; I felt it was the novel in which my writing took a huge leap forward.
Most fiction series are written so that the reader can come in at any point and not feel lost, but if you can start at the beginning, why not?
I can't imagine a romance novel published today where the hero rapes the heroine and she falls in love with him.
It was heaven. Forget angels, forget St. Peter and glittering harpsichords. Heaven was a dance in the arms of one's true love.
Vegas represents the idea of America I had as a kid. The big cars, the pretty girls; everything is possible in Vegas.
Interstate highways dull the reality of place and distance almost as effectively as jetliners do: I loathe their scary monotony.
Heartbreak comes in different sizes, and the departure of an 18-year-old child for a far college has to be treated as a very benign form of the disease.
But the citizens of Cincinnati loved their Reds because they won, no matter what their addresses had been the year before. They rooted for the Old-English 'C' on the players' shirts.
Donning a glove for a backyard toss, or watching a ball game, or just reflecting upon our baseball days, we are players again, forever young.
The caliber of play suffered and attendance declined year by year. Interest in college football was exploding, and there was this new game called basketball.
The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin', in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same.
