I felt the power of God as I'd never felt it before.

God walking on the earth is more important than man walking on the moon.

Mean people suck

Society has become so fake that the truth actually bothers people.

The word of God is very important to Christmas. For unto us a child was born, and we should be reminded of how Christ's amazing journey came to be.

But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burdens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord.

Our purpose in this life is to gain the view of ourselves; otherwise, we are total slaves to others who psychically drain us, abuse us.

Every farewell combines loss and new freedom.

A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.

Give not reins to your inflamed passions: take time and a little delay; impetuosity manages all things badly.

If you put good people in bad systems you get bad results. You have to water the flowers you want to grow.

I seemed busy, busy, busy, but I suppose, if pressed, I might have admitted that, for all my frenzy, I was very much alone.