Franklin Knight Lane

A public office is not a job, it is an opportunity to do something for the public.

Newspaper men, perhaps more than any other class, are rated by ability.

I am not the flag: not at all. I am but its shadow.

New fiction writers are a special breed in my estimation, and I never dreamed that so many people would be interested, but I remember being led by God.

It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that democratic reforms based on human rights are resisted by authoritarian governments.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.