Poetry creates life; Science dissects death.

There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.

Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.

We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.

God's truth is too sacred to be expounded to superficial worldliness in its transient fit of earnestness.

This is the true liberty of Christ, when a free man binds himself in love to duty. Not in shrinking from our distasteful occupations, but in fulfilling them, do we realize our high origin.

Marriage is not a union merely between two creatures - it is a union between two spirits; and the intention of that bond is to perfect the nature of both.

What the world calls virtue is a name and a dream without Christ. The foundation of all human excellence must be laid deep in the blood of the Redeemer's cross, and in the power of His resurrection.

To grieve over sin is one thing, to repent is another.

There is a past which is gone forever, but there is a future which is still our own.

Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.

When we lack faith, God is not surprised by it. When we lack faith, God can supply it. When we receive the faith He gives us, God is honored by it.

Write something worth reading and your voice will be heard.

Writing for adults, you have to keep reminding them of what is going on. The poor things have given up using their brains when they read. Children you only need to tell things to once.

There's two things you need to know. One, that you won't quit on yourself, and two, that I've done the work.

All my friends are super normal.

Either you lead a life which is luxurious on the material level or you lead a luxurious life of God's blessings. One of these two you have to choose, the time has come.

True silence is really endless speech.

My father thought a novel was a broken short story. There's something to that. Many of my favorite novels are novellas. The authors of brief things must reckon with the precision of language.

I like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen.

Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, 'you owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that! It lights up the whole sky.