Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

I've been asked this question so many times, do you feel you need to write a book for adults? No, I don't need to write a book for adults.

We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

Even when the writing seems very frivolous, I'm puritanical. I don't mean my subject matter. It's that I'm almost pathologically incapable of leaving something when I'm not quite happy with it.