I can promise you that the Spirit is a lot more anxious to help you than you are to be helped.

We have to find out the technique by which the spirit whispers to our hearts. We have to learn to hear it and to understand it and to know when we have it, and that sometimes takes a long time.

Anybody who cannot learn to hear by feeling will not go very far in church.

Literature is the power of fiction itself: not making a claim about what the world is, but about the imagination of a possible world.

A true friend reminds you why you should believe in yourself when you have forgotten.

Now, he'd loved money for money's sake. He loved the feel of it, not only in his hands, but also in his heart.

To fall in love and to commit yourself to love means you should make your loved one the one thing you cherish the most.

When your neighbor's house is afire your own property is at stake.

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

I've learned over the years that the writing is smarter and far larger than the writer and his or her own desires for it.

I think the internal combustion engine will disappear from the streets of our cities in the next thirty years because transportation will be mass transportation, or probably electrical power.

The actors come and you start seeing things happen for real.