"Coaches build teams, parents build players."

“In the big picture I write for an audience of people I've never met. By the final draft I'm looking for anything in the prose that's prospectively boring to strangers.”

Source : "So Much For That". Interview with Bret Anthony Johnston, www.nationalbook.org. 2010.

“I don't believe in the landscape.”

“I don't mind only kissing Nina Dobrev”

“By the time I was 4, I knew how to hit my mark.”

“If the agent aims to make the attempt if and only if it would be apt, then a distinctive element of risk assessment becomes relevant: How probably would the agent succeed in attempting that fuller end?”

“In general, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, venereal disease, teen pregnancy, and abortion.”

Source : "Cross-National Correlations of Quantifiable Societal Health with Popular Religiosity and Secularism in the Prosperous Democracies". moses.creighton.edu. 2005.

“With empathy we don't direct, we follow. Don't just do something, be there.”

“To pray against temptation, and yet rush into occasions, is to thrust your fingers into the fire, and then pray they might not be burnt.”