I myself love to read those Victorian novels which go on and on, and you don't read them in one sitting. You might read one over the course of a summer, but that isn't what I want to write.

The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.

We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

The fear is for what is still to be lost.

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

Short stories demand a certain awareness of one's own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus.

You disregard God when you disregard His people

An altar is like an airport where spirits take off and land

Knowledge comes from leaning - Ignorance is born from not wanting to know the difference!

Oh what a cause of thankfulness it is that we have a gracious God to go to on all occasions! Use and enjoy this privilege and you can never be miserable. Oh what an unspeakable privilege is prayer!

Worry is like a rocking chair; it keeps you in motion but gets you nowhere

Jazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes and visual expressions.

You can really only enjoy life when youre extremely busy.

You really struggle to be a successful empire if you are also the world's biggest debtor.

God thinks within geniuses, dreams within poets, and sleeps within the rest of us.

I never have sought the world; the world was not to seek me.