I would love to coach and teach people about football. It's just that the time constraints are so tough to coach, especially when you have seven kids and they are growing up. I'm just in too blessed of a situation to spend from five in the morning until 12 at night coaching and not watching my kids grow up.

My brother was a Chargers fan, so we watched Dan Fouts a lot growing up.

I was a Cowboys fan growing up.

The greatest impact you can have on people is never what you say but how you live... You set the standard with your actions. The words can come after.

We often compare the experience of writing a book to that of playing God. It is up to us, and only us, to determine what happens to the people we invent. It is for us alone to determine what is good and bad, just and unjust, appropriate and inappropriate for the worlds we create. I love that about writing books.

Prayer is talking with God. God knows your heart and is not so concerned with your words as He is with the attitude of your heart.

I think most artists will experience a lot of negative people on Twitter but, thank God, I've got so many followers that I'm not able to see them that much. I'll see some from time to time but, for the most part, I always focus on something good.

Governor Pawlenty's commitment to faith and family is not a product of coaching by campaign consultants.