I was studying acting in New York, and wasn't being hired by anyone to do anything other than to work in an Oriental rug warehouse.

To serve God, to love God, to enjoy God, is the sweetest freedom in the world.

The commands of God are all designed to make us more happy than we can possibly be without them.

The greatest of all disorders is to think we are whole and need no help.

He, who loves praise, loves temptation.

Our life must answer for our faith.

Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

The world would use us just as it did the martyrs, if we loved God as they did.

A great man is made so for others.

Intemperance in talk makes dreadful havoc in the heart.

It costs more to revenge injuries than to bear them.

I had never confronted my parents with the true feelings I had for them, and I had certainly never expressed the depth of my feeling for my mother, being too selfish to try when I should have.

Always remember...the stronger your position in life, the more enemies you're gonna have .. while friends come and go.

If the heroes run and hide, who will stay and fight?

Mysticism was merely virility in a state of liquidation

Law without penalty is only advise.

Fits did not go over well in my house. There was a lot of discipline and obedience and you had to be very ladylike. Ladies didn't curse and I still don't curse in front of my parents.

It was important to me to believe, because if I don't believe, how can I expect them to believe?

It's also true, however, that having conquered the regional writer ghetto, I am now intent on conquering the nationalist writer ghetto and moving out into the world more.

I grew up watching British comedy on TV, really.

Grace cannot wipe out the law of sewing and reaping.