If you place belief on a pedestal, it will become your prison.

You have the power to take away someone's happiness by refusing to forgive. That someone is you.

When I prepare, then I become pregnant... and then I produce. When I produce, then I praise the Lord... and then I become prosperous and then the cycle repeats!

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I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism and superficiality.

Since that first showing of Foolish Wives I have seemed to walk through vast crowds of people, their white American faces turned towards me in stern reproof.

If there is no God, nothing matters. If there is a God, nothing else matters.

If you're not your own severest critic, you are your own worst enemy.

My faith is brightest in the midst of impenetrable darkness.

I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself and I get to make up the rules of the world that I'm writing.

No knowledge is useless, with the exception of heraldry.