God, please now my future see, make it clear where I should be. Open windows, close the doors, not my will, my God, but Yours.

Love happens when people forgive.

Friends don't get jealous of each other or begrudge the other for finding success. They celebrate every victory together.

Perfect love drives out fear

The next time that boy pursues you, he better do it like a dying man looking for water in a desert. When it's the right guy, you'll know, because he'll cherish you.

God stays awake all the time. In case we need to talk to Him about something.

You don't have love without sacrifice; you can't have sacrifice without love.

Christmas is a time to mark our progress through this earthly journey. Because of Christmas, this we know: Christ was born for us. He is love, and the plans he has for us always surpass our own.

God grows fragrant flowers of hope in the ashes of loss.

Life is too short for half-hearted connections and meaningless run-throughs.

I can spend 10 to 15 minutes with someone, and they can tell me what they're going through. I may never have gone through that, but I get it on a really deep level.

There is need for a new foundation and this foundation is laid in us on the day of our salvation

Everyone has a thousand wishes before a tragedy, but just one afterward.

Only the children know what they are looking for. They waste their time over a rag doll and it becomes very important to them; and if anybody takes it away from them, they cry.

Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction

Mulch's tongue lolled out, resting on the centaur's neck. "Mmm," he mumbled around his tongue. "Horse. Tasty" "Let's go," said Foaly nervously. "Let's go right now.

Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one's share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.

When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they're still here and passing it on to others.

You don't have freedom unless you have the freedom to do stupid self-destructive things.

To name a thing is easy: the difficulty is to discern it before its appearance.

The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.