Everything is generated through your own will power. You don't have to do anything you don't want to do. This is a democracy. You go where you want to go and do what you want to do.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.

Don’t be insecure about aiming to be a small business. Anyone who runs a business that’s sustainable and profitable, whether it’s big or small, should be

Old is unwanted. You don't find Thais going to the thrift store. They want new clothes. They want the newest cell phone.

Travelling is the ruin of all happiness. There's no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.

In missionary work, as in all else, preparation precedes power. Encouragement to prepare while still very young can make a tremendous difference.

The incarnation is in itself an unfathomable mystery, but it makes sense of everything else that the New Testament contains.

Who are you if you lose your favorite person? Can you lose your favorite person without losing yourself? I reach for Stargirl and she's gone. I'm not me anymore.

With the right attitude, human beings can move mountains. With the wrong attitude, they can be crushed by the smallest grain of sand.

I need to learn how to start saying no. Like when someone says ‘please stop choking me.’

If your only tool is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.

An unfair process helps no one. But once you've gone through with that process and you think that you know that person has raped someone, they have to go.