Life is a happy thing, a festival to be enjoyed rather than a drudgery to be endured.

Things may not be logical or fair, but when God is directing the events of our lives, they are right.

Whether our fear is absolutely realistic or out of proportion in our minds, our greatest refuge is Jesus Christ.

Purpose, or mission, is determined by the development of values, balance, ethics, humor, morality, and sensitivities. It manifests itself in the way we look at life.

My favorite thing that God gives is grace. It is without performance, free in Christ.

Whether you win or lose, whether you have a good day or bad day, God is with you; He loves you.

Adventure is an attitude, not a behavior.

To fully enjoy life, to derive its greatest meaning and beauty, one needs to enter into it with not only the look of involvement and happiness, but the spirit of involvement as well.

We're waiting for a ship to come in that never went out.

Don't just be interested, be interesting.

Lord, to the degree I don't want to do this, bless me.

What a hundred caring, courageous and conscientious women can achieve in ten years, would take a thousand men a hundred years.

The thing that makes you exceptional if you are at all is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

And I'm afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

A writer should say to himself, not, How can I get more money?, but How can I reach more readers (without lowering standards)?

[On Thomas Babington Macaulay:] He was a most disagreeable companion to my fancy ... His conversation was a procession of one.

Well, for instance, when I left her today, she put her arms around me and felt my shoulder blades, to see if my wings were strong, she said.

Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell.

Every advantage has its tax.