Spouses are great impediments to great enterprises.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

All rising to great places is by a winding stair.

It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.

Destiny, if I could sit across the porch from God, I'd thank Him for Lending me you.....

Suspense doesn’t always have to be about physical danger. Making the reader worry is a universal concept that can be applied to any story.

Famous revolutionary, ' you say, and the laughter pumps out of your chest like blood, great almost painful spurts of it splashing up the building faces toward the marquee moon.

Last words when sending our boy to college: "If there's anything you want call us and we'll show you how to live without it."

We are all fallen creatures and all very hard to live with.

My favorite color is green.

He gaped at the controls. "Why is my ship talking back to me?

The attention has to be on the Spirit. And that cannot be there unless and until something happens within.

Truth is literally that which is without secrecy, what discloses itself without a veil.

God is creativity, not a Creator.