I have to know the killer, the victim and the motive when I begin. Then I start to create the characters and see how the novel takes shape based on what these people are like.

What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tree.

It takes a lot of grace and maturity to simply forgive, but a lot of healing takes place when you do.

the demons that make a person afraid are the hardest to cast out.

There is no escape if love is not there

She snatched at the dream that had comforted her for so long. It was faded and thin, like a letter too often read.

Each day is precious when we consider what we can do to serve God and His Kingdom.

Remember to say what you mean, but don't say it meanly.

God uses the flawed, the failures, and the imperfect to accomplish His perfect will.

Expectations destroy our peace of mind. They are future disappointments, planned out in advance.

Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps.

When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.

Life shouldn’t be about survival alone but about living

Either you take a path, RIGHT or LEFT, and if it was a mistake, turn back and take the other path, because your are the one who can change it.

We spend a good part of our lives trying desperately to convince ourselves as well as everybody else that we know more than we really do.

A man of God in the will of God is immortal until His work is done.

I know some lonely houses off the road A robber'd like the look of,-- Wooden barred, And windows hanging low

Marriage is a fight to the death. Before contracting it, the two parties concerned implore the benediction of Heaven because to promise to love each other forever is the rashest of enterprises.

Are you saying that the assistant had the answers all along, he just wasn't telling anyone?

The Jug Band was exactly what I wanted to do, and it wasn't my idea.

Death does not allow us to postpone all the things we can experience now.