Burn worldly love, rub the ashes and make ink of it, make the heart the pen, the intellect the writer, write that which has no end or limit.

The world is a drama, staged in a dream

Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.

Speak only that which will bring you honor.

Even kings and emperors, with mountains of property and oceans of wealth - these are not even equal to an ant, who does not forget God.

Your Mercy is my social status.

It seemed to me then that to have published a book - any kind of book - would be the greatest possible happiness I could ask from life.

If the reader cares, I dont think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero.

Containment is a strategy for losers! But as General George S. Patton famously observed, Americans play to win all the time. Americans don't play to lose.

If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If not, Immortality would not be worth having.

Things do change. The only question is that since things are deteriorating so quickly, will society and man's habits change quickly enough?

Have God make a message out of your mess.

Save the child and you save the nation.

Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul.

It's hard to resist the magical thinking that the work habits of great writers are the key to their greatness.