Aphorism, n.: A concise, clever statement you don’t think of until too late.

Whether a character in your novel is full of choler, bile, phlegm, blood or plain old buffalo chips, the fire of life is in there, too, as long as that character lives.

Probably the most honest "self-made person" ever was the one we heard say: "I got to the top the hard way - fighting my own laziness and ignorance every step of the way."

We pick bygone time up by the handfuls and, like clay, see if it feels right and then form it into stories about the past.

For every time we regret keeping still, there are about ten times we regret speaking up.

Too often we seek justice for just us.

you come to understand that history might be, as Thomas Carlyle put it, “a distillation of rumor, ” or, as Napoleon said, “a set of lies generally agreed upon

Excellence has a loud mouth

Compassion is not something you have

I believe that for lots of churches and religious institutions, their main focus on the development of faith among parishioners needs to spread to the community.

The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

The poorest ploughman is in Christ equal with the greatest prince that is. Let them therefore have sufficient to maintain them.

The story of survival is a nice metaphor for our experience making this movie, finding your inner strength and powering through and getting to the endpoint alive.

Formatting is no substitute for writing.

From somber, serious sullen saints, save us, O Lord.

First become a winner in life. Then it's easier to become a winner on the field.