God has nothing to say to the self-righteous.

The Bible was not given for our information but for our transformation.

Moses spent forty years thinking he was somebody; forty years learning he was nobody; and forty years discovering what God can do with a nobody.

We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.

God doesn't expect the impossible from us. He wants us to expect the impossible from Him!

I'd rather be able to pray than to be a great preacher; Jesus Christ never taught his disciples how to preach, but only how to pray.

Some people think God does not like to be troubled with our constant coming and asking. The way to trouble God is not to come at all.

Real true faith is man's weakness leaning on God's strength.

I have never met a man who has given me as much trouble as myself.

Out of 100 men, one will read the Bible, the other 99 will read the Christian.

He who kneels the most, stands the best.

I don't think all writers are sad, she said.I think it's the other way around—all sad people write.

The dream is fulfilled in due time.

Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.

I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.

Fate is how your life unfolds when you let fear determine your choices. A path of destiny reveals itself to you, however, when you confront your fear and make conscious choices.

I got Oedipus off the incest charge--technicality, of course--he didn't know it was his mother at the time.

Elizabeth Taylor was so fat that whenever she went to London in a red dress, 30 passengers would try to board her.

A boy sows a wild oat or two, the world winks. A girl does the same -- scandal.

I believe if you follow your heart and do what you love, success will follow. If you enchant yourself, others will be too.

I think telling stories is like pushing something. Pushing against uncreation itself, maybe.