My main source for faith-based stuff is mostly the Bible, and a childhood with a much, much higher-than-median exposure to theological thought.

The building was on fire, and it wasn’t my fault.

When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching - they are your family.

Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.

I've always felt that the best whips and chains are in the mind. With a little creativity, the physical ones are hardly necessary.

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I checked my gear, my pockets, my shoelaces, and realized that I had crossed the line between making sure I was ready and trying to postpone the inevitable.

I'd made the vampire cry. Great. I felt like a real superhero. Harry Dresden, breaker of monsters' hearts.

Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.

I died. I died and someone made a clerical error and I am in Heaven.

There is the world that should be and the world that is. We live in one and must create the other.

When the going gets tough, put one foot in front of the other and just keep going. Don’t give up.

Just because you can't see something doesn't mean it's not there.

Don't allow ignorance to further enslave your destiny.

Inspiration and motivation may come from others, but true inspiration comes from within.

The Christian's life should be one of thankfulness to God.

It may not be in the constitution, but every American has a god-given right to provinciality and ignorance.

We have to live with it, sometimes these coincidences do happen. They are obviously huge losses but we will just have to get on as we are.

A homely woman is one of the most comely of apes.

And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame

I'm a terrible cook, but if I could cook, I would see that in art as well, it's how much creative energy you put into something.