All who call on God in true faith earnestly from the heart will certainly be heard and will receive what they have asked and desired.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.

The time is always right to do what is right.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

The time is always right to do the right thing.

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.

Generally I try to avoid discussing consciousness, since it's, like, hard.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

I am sure every writer has this and probably every newscaster, that people are always coming up to me and saying, my daughter wants to do what you do, my godson, my tennis partner.

Fiction, poetry, music...these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated.

The enjoyment of one's tools is an essential ingredient of successful work.

All my books have been titled based on a piece of the prose from inside the book.

Anyone in pursuit of art is responding to a desire to make visible that which is not, to offer the unknown self to others.

The best way to help Israel deal with Iran's growing nuclear capacity is to help the people of Syria overthrow the regime of Bashar Assad.

Having the balance of a work life and a family life has been so good for me.

Dissolving the name is awareness. Dissolving the form is meditation. The world is name and form. Bliss transcends name and form.