Christ within us, the hope of glory.

There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.

Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.

We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.

God's truth is too sacred to be expounded to superficial worldliness in its transient fit of earnestness.

This is the true liberty of Christ, when a free man binds himself in love to duty. Not in shrinking from our distasteful occupations, but in fulfilling them, do we realize our high origin.

Marriage is not a union merely between two creatures - it is a union between two spirits; and the intention of that bond is to perfect the nature of both.

What the world calls virtue is a name and a dream without Christ. The foundation of all human excellence must be laid deep in the blood of the Redeemer's cross, and in the power of His resurrection.

To grieve over sin is one thing, to repent is another.

There is a past which is gone forever, but there is a future which is still our own.

Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.

Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me

I had to choose: Either leave the country, where it's become dangerous for me, or go on the offensive.

I'm an academic. I'm hardwired for a good debate.

I love being an illustrator because I get to read really great stories, work with amazing people, travel and see places I never would've seen. And I get to draw all the time.

I think the fact that I grew up in show business had a real effect on my personality. If you were born in New York during the golden age of television, and you grew up on Broadway, that marks you.

Easier, sometimes, to gulp down giant spoonfuls of uncertainty than it is to swallow throat-clogging capsules of what really is.

Very intimate but very separate at the same time'. That's my credo for friendship.

Breakthrough happened around me when breakup happened within me.

I spend most of my time writing.