I have tried to be righteous all my life. Yet I have never been content.

But then I realize that even if I did have a soul, it’s not as though someone else would be there. It would only be more of me.

The only chance of success is to trust in your own power.

Sometimes you can't speak, not because others won't let you, but because you are afraid of what you'll say.

You always have something left to lose. Until, of course, you die.

People can be miracles.

Everyone dies. The don't all have the chance to see what they wanted most. At least I've seen the Above. At least I've known True.

So much of life is in the smallness of moments...but they are harder to mark. So we need the grander celebrations and occasions. People like to feel significant

Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness.

There is one word that can change weakness into strength

I don't really have studios. I wander around - around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me.

Be ready for when your time comes, you will have that window of opportunity, so seize the moment and capitalise on it.

The enemy's plan is to take away God's glory. God's plan is to have as much glory shown through your life.

Duncan became a legend before he became a player at Everton.

The net of heaven is very wide in its meshes, and yet it misses nothing.

Like the weaver, the writer works on the wrong side of his material. He has only to do with the language, and it is thus that he suddenly finds himself surrounded by sense.

We are so much more powerful and important than we realize. In each moment that we connect with another, we have the opportunity to etch a memory into their heart.

It's no surprise to me that intellectuals commit suicide, go mad or die from drink. We feel things more than other people. We know the world is rotten and that chins are ruined by spots.