Often the Muse will not respond to direct and logical requests. She must be lured in with the playful and gentle.

Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not.

No clergyman however brilliant, no evangelist no matter how eloquent or compelling, can bring about the revival we need. Only the Holy Spirit can do this.

Failures, mistakes, and difficulties are just locations on your journey through life. They have nothing to do with who you are.

We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer's wreckage. We will welcome summer's ghost.

When you idolise someone, or you hold someone in such high regard, you just want them to be everything that you think there are - and when they are it's just lovely.

I need solitude, which is to say, recovery, return to my self, the breath of a free, light, playful air.

You can't build your dream by what you're going to do or planning to do or intend to do. You only build your dream by building it.

since we must eat to live, we might as well do it with both grace and gusto.

I can conceive of nothing worse than a man-governed world -- except a woman-governed world.

The world is a nest of crows; some caw in praise; some caw in derision. But men should be above the reach of praise and blame.