I may not believe that 'all things happen for a reason.' But I do believe that reason may come from all things that happen.

I've had these demons for years, maybe for my whole life. Then you came along to provoke them, expose them, and eventually rid me of them, because I believe you're the only human that can.

All work is service. If you aren't serving in your work, you really aren't working.

It was always clear to me that I would have to earn my readers, some I would have to find, some to create.

We criticize a man or a book most sharply when we sketch out their ideal.

Becoming the beloved is pulling the truth revealed to me from above down into the ordinariness of what I am, in fact, thinking of, talking about and doing from hour to hour.

Life gives nothing to man without labor.

I'm not really interested in courting controversy, but I am interested in exploring issues that other people would deem to be controversial.

There must not only be good preaching, but good hearing.

I'm a very restless person. I'm always doing something. The creative process never stops.

To be prejudiced is the privilege of the thinking human being. ... The open mind is the empty mind.