Material blessings fade and deteriorate, but your riches in Christ are everlasting.

What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tree.

It takes a lot of grace and maturity to simply forgive, but a lot of healing takes place when you do.

the demons that make a person afraid are the hardest to cast out.

There is no escape if love is not there

She snatched at the dream that had comforted her for so long. It was faded and thin, like a letter too often read.

Each day is precious when we consider what we can do to serve God and His Kingdom.

Remember to say what you mean, but don't say it meanly.

God uses the flawed, the failures, and the imperfect to accomplish His perfect will.

Expectations destroy our peace of mind. They are future disappointments, planned out in advance.

Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps.

If you can't be who you really are then what is life but an unbearable lie?

Who care's what other people think? If you are happy with yourself, you will get by just fine with them.

I try to pace myself and not work for the sake of working and stick to what inspired me prior to receiving recognition.

The earth is heavy and opaque without dreams.

Sometimes I think all I want to find is a mean guy and make him be nice to me. Or maybe a nice guy who's a little bit mean to me. But they're usually too nice too soon or too mean too long.

The responsibility of the writer is to be a sort of demonic social critic -- to present the world and people in it as he sees it and say, "Do you like it? If you don't like it, change it.

The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness.

I will pause to consider this eternity from which the subsequent ones derive.

Energy rests upon love; and come as it will, there's no forcing it.

You don't get mood swings from eating cornflakes