If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.

A house built on greed cannot long endure.

But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust.

And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain.

I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand.

Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.

Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising.

Not all questions can be answered.

Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate.

In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal.

But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.

Stress isn't only a joy stealer. The way we respond to it can be sin.

Being creative is a beautiful thing. Being creative for other people is work. No one wants to work at being creative.

You don’t get one chance at life but many over one lifetime.

God is more concerned with the state of people's hearts than He is with the state of their feelings.

I'm a song-and-dance girl. I can act enough to get by. But that's the limit of my talents.

I've always liked Richard Pryor. I've always responded to rhythmic profanity.

Man and woman are two locked caskets, of which each contains the key to the other.

We have no Constitution which functions in the absence of a moral people

A gifted player, who is not a team player, will ultimately hurt the team.

Opinion, and the just maintenance of it, shall never be a crime in my view.