A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.

People see God every day, they just don't recognize him.

No one can figure out your worth but you.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

You must change in order to survive.

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.

I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.

Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.

I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written.

If something is well-written, it has a chance to be good and if it's not well-written, it will not be good. It could even become popular, but it won't be good.

If I were to write the story of my life, I would shock the world.

Bring the past only if you are going to build from it.

My life is more to me than all the wealth of Ilius

My children are my children. There's no doubt about that at all. They're very strong towards me, very protective, and I towards them. It works both ways.

You two are a match made in heaven. Or somewhere.

Whatever pearl you seek, look for the pearl within the pearl!

In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable.

Everything is fraught with fear: Renunciation alone is fearless.