It's not your end goal that gives life to your required actions, it's your required actions that give life to your end goal.

We can only keep what we have by being willing to freely give it away; a paraphrase of Jesus Christ.

Best smiles come after the toughest time.

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

If God is for us, who can be against us?

If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

Why not learn to enjoy the little things-there are so many of them.

Remember the past, plan for the future, but live for today, because yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

God helps those who help themselves.

Without ambition, nothing is achieved. Without work, nothing will be completed. The prize will not be sent until you earn it.

Drawing and painting is like a quickie in bed. Were as novel writing is a long term relationship, much more fulling.

Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

Be courteous to all but intimate with few and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

I'm not much interested in extrapolating science and technology; I merely use extrapolation as a means of putting people into new quandaries which produce colorful pressures and conflicts.

They didn't do this because they have facts, because they have solid proof against me. They did it because the president spoke and now they must prove that he was right and that is my great worry.

I like many different things you know so I'm probably going to experiment, and if I didn't I'd be a little bit strange and boring and stiff and kind of dead, and I'm very not that.

Over and over, we have to go back to the beginning. We should not be ashamed of this. It is good. It's like drinking water.

The working process is ideally freeing my mind.

I've always allowed myself to go on journeys creatively and emotionally, and never put, like, limits on myself.