Good enough is never good enough.

Fiction is love and hate and agreement and conflict and common adventure, not lonely musings on have-beens and might-have-beens.

The Christian is like the ripening corn; the riper he grows the more lowly he bends his head.

If you are inclined to leave your character solitary for any considerable length of time, better question yourself. Fiction is association, not withdrawal.

When people use you, it does not feel very good. But when God uses you for His purpose, it's the greatest feeling in the world!

Peace is a child's beautiful smile and a flower's freshnessPeace is an inner perception of joyfulness and happiness.

One ordinary woman connected to an extraordinary God can make a difference

Everything I think and everything I do is wrong.

Technology is the name we give to stuff that doesn't work properly yet

Here the people seem to possess the secret of tranquility and to live lives of more than surface contentment.

I like cluttered, old, dark-wood antiques. I like character.

People make a lot of jokes about the empty nest. Let me tell you, it is no laughing matter. It is really hard.

The goofiness of radicals thinking they have to dress in Guatemalan peasant clothes. The poor don't want you to look like them. They want you to dress in a suit and go get them food and water. Comma.

The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else.