Beauty does not come with creams and lotions. God can give us beauty, but whether that beauty remains or chagnes is determined by our thoughts and deeds.

Take care of your inner, spiritual beauty. That will reflect in your face.

Hollywood, what a place it is! It is so far away from the rest of the world, so narrow. No one thinks of anything but motion pictures or talks of anything else.

He that despiseth his neighbor sin-neth but he that hath mercy on the poor happy is he.

... we see the poor as a mass of shadow, painted in one flat grey wash, at the remote edges of our sunshine.

The truth is that I'm never sure how any of my books will be received, and because I can be thin-skinned, I try not to read too many reviews when a book first comes out.

Hunger for excellence. Continuously seek inspiration to make your work better.

The word of God teacheth lowliness of mind; it teacheth us to know ourselves.

I don't worry about being in a hurry anymore, because my faith in God will always deliver me on time.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

In 1976 I discovered Ebola - now I fear an unimaginable tragedy.

What is full of redundancy or formula is predictably boring. What is free of all structure or discipline is randomly boring. In between lies art.

Facebook is like jail, you sit around and waste time, you write on walls and you get poked by people you don't know