My books are like my children. I love them all.

I always say the next book is my favorite, because without a "next" book, you don't really have a career as a book author.

The Word that will change a man must first show the man who he really is.

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

A flower that grows in the shade of another blooms slowly.

Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orc

Men are made for happiness and anyone who is completely happy has a right to say to himself: "I am doing God's will on earth."

how tedious is retirement! You cannot imagine to yourself the monotony with which day comes after day.

I feel like most people aren't either/or, they're both/and. You're both magnanimous and petty. You're both kind and cruel. You're never just one thing.

I have to do things for myself, and if those standards are set high, then it's up to me to pass or fail.

I've been taking pictures of wherever I go, or on planes, whatever.

It is a good sign when He burdens us with [crosses] and we carry them well, but woe to the person who runs away from them, for he will find such heavy ones that they will overwhelm him.