“A book that is shut is but a block.” — Thomas Fuller Quote

A book that is shut is but a block.

Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is pinched.

Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.

He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.

I'm not patient at all. I avoid writer's block by writing. I power through with a bad version, so I can move on, and usually once I've gotten to the next scene, I'll discover what was missing from the bad version scene. Then I can easily rewrite it to get back on the right path.

I used to play a lot of 'Civilization Revolution.' It's a strategy game that takes six to eight hours. You literally have to block off a full Sunday.

When the media and even people within our own party treat minorities as a single voting block, it is a shocking display of identity politics and frankly, the kind of racism that is antithetical to our conservative values of freedom, merit and hard work.

If I am frustrated in one area, I can always push myself in another. But sometimes I feel like I am so focused on doing everything that I'm not really doing anything... something that my dad told me to do has really helped. He said, 'you have to give 90 minutes of undivided attention.' I try to block off time for different things.