I delight in what I fear.

I never was a person who wanted a handout. I was a cafeteria worker. I'm not too proud to ask the Best Western manager to give me a job. I have cleaned homes.

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.

I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which contains no pertinent facts.

Materializations are often best produced in rooms where there are books. I cannot think of any time when materialization was in any way hampered by the presence of books.

So long as you write it away regularly nothing can really hurt you.

Fear," the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.

I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there.

The sight of one's own heart is degrading; people are not meant to look inward - that's why they've been given bodies, to hide their souls.

We eat the year away. We eat the spring and the summer and the fall. We wait for something to grow and then we eat it.

Wear your boots if you wander today

Love is one of those topics that plenty of people try to write about but not enough try to do.

She'd grown up believing in hell in an abstract nightmare way

Brotherhood means laying down your life for somebody, really willing to sacrifice yourself for somebody else.

You do not think much of me, do you, Cogburn?" "I don't think about you at all when your mouth is closed.

Extreme picky eaters may have what's called Selective Eating Disorder. People with this experience physical and psychological discomfort over certain tastes, smells, textures.

A man must have a battle to fight, a great mission to his life that involves and yet transcends even home and family.

Praise is the daughter of present power.

When I have one foot in the grave, I will tell the whole truth about women. I shall tell it, jump into my coffin, pull the lid over me and say, "Do what you like now."

Long ago I learned nothing gets done by just wishing it. You have to do it.

Without the burden of afflictions it is impossible to reach the height of Grace. The gift of Grace increases as the struggle increases.