Every tear of sorrow sown by the righteous springs up a pearl.

Hope for the best, get ready for the worst, and then take what God chooses to send.

Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.

Christ's followers cannot expect better treatment in the world than their Master had.

The Bible is a letter God has sent to us; prayer is a letter we send to him.

It was the greatest honor God did to man that he made man in the image of God; but it is the greatest dishonor man has done to God that he has made God in the image of man.

The more reverence we have for the Word of God, the more joy we shall find in it.

There is a burden of care in getting riches; fear in keeping them; temptation in using them; guilt in abusing them; sorrow in losing them; and a burden of account at last to be given concerning them.

No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.

After a storm comes a calm.

Wherever the fear of God rules in the heart, it will appear both in works of charity and piety, and neither will excuse us from the other.

Nature operates in the shortest way possible.

If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.

It was a given in our family that my father was a grocer so that I wouldn't have to be.

Write about what you're afraid of.

I didn't even know I was a feminist until I read it on the back of one of my own books.

For a certain kind of person, love begins from something tiny or silly. From something like that or it doesnt begin at all.

I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write.

You've got to say, "I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it." It's called perseverance.

When I was 6 my father went to fight in the war, so he was my big hero. I thought he was the greatest thing.

destructiveness comes only when life isn't lived. People who can live their lives don't destroy themselves.