I'm a morning person because I learned to write my novels while still practicing law. I would get to the office at 6:30 a.m. and write until other people arrived around 9. Now I still do that. I start at 6:30 or 7 and I'll write until 11 then take an hour off then work until about 2 p.m. By then my brain has had enough.

What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than I'd learned in seven years or so of trying to write criticism.

You're not just going out there maybe sacrificing your own life. There's also sacrifices still going on at home. You can serve in the military and have a good marriage but you just need to be aware of it so you can take those steps to take care of it.

When you make the sacrifice in marriage you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

You have to study your field and you have to find out how other people do it and you have to keep working and learning and practicing and ultimately you would be able to do it.

By keeping my hand in that it's the way I keep learning. The main way you learn in medicine is by practicing and working with patients.

I started practicing yoga. I started learning some hands-on healing stuff. And I found really good chiropractors really good massage therapists and what I found is I've been able to actually peel off layers of trauma on my body and actually move better now than I did.

I have a life that I enjoy I try and value the things that I think are worth valuing and everything else is icing. You know it is a kick to go down the red carpet in that dress and then you go back home.

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for so much history yet to be made.