I worry a lot about people using games just for marketing, to get people to buy more stuff, which I think would be the worst possible use.
Whenever I do talks around the country, I map out my run. Gives me something fun to do and to look forward to doing.
It would have been very easy to drift into writing a non-fiction book so by taking it away from Nottingham I forced myself to imagine much more of it.
It takes a lot of energy and creativity to make such screwed up lives carry on. And the kind of will people have to survive, year after year, dealing with that stuff, is weirdly impressive.
I've loved fairytales, folklore and mythology since I was a small child, and I think it was inevitable that they would influence my style and my development of stories.
Lincoln's removal from New Salem to Springfield and his entrance into a law partnership with Major John T. Stuart begin a distinctively new period in his career.
If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.
We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that's the mercy you're going to be receiving.
I don't argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus' message was simple.
I've always been very happy. I've always been easy going and I've always been very encouraging; it's just my personality.
I don't want to just preach to the church. I feel like I have a broader message.
I think sometimes the critics want me to beat people down, and that's not in me. I want to lift people up.
I want get across to not just the church world. I want to get outside those walls to everyday people.
Your job is not to judge. Your job is not to figure out if someone deserves something. Your job is to lift the fallen, to restore the broken, and to heal the hurting.
God wants to use you in spite of your weaknesses. Of God chose to use perfect people only, He’d have no one to use
The defense of ObamaCare's constitutionality relies mainly on the truism that everyone is sure to get sick at some point in their lives, and this makes the health-care market unlike any other market.
Bouncing a sitting president requires conscious action, a national decision to redirect the country's course. This cuts against the grain, and that's why incumbents have a natural advantage.
Obama learned from Ronald Reagan that it helps to strike an optimistic tone. But genuine optimism deriving from American exceptionalism, it turns out, does not come naturally to him.
Electoral contests have nothing but polls, which is why people have grown so obsessed with them; we're desperate for an objective rendering of what is happening and what may happen.
As the Republican nominee, it was Romney's job to find a way to speak to some of those groups of voters and offer practical solutions to their difficulties that both resonated with them and sounded plausible to them.
Wrong believing puts people in a prison. Even though there are no physical shackles, wrong believing causes its inmates to behave as though they were incarcerated in a maximum-security penitentiary.
