The University of Timbuktu never existed. The only thing that existed in Timbuktu was a small mud hut.

There can be no good character in civil government if there is none in the people. You cannot make a good omelet with bad eggs.

We cannot use our thoughts and feelings as a standard: only God’s Word is the test.

In any age, our problems are a result of sin, and the solution is faith and obedience.

The state is a bankrupt institution. The only alternative to this bankrupt 'humanistic' system is a God-centered government.

To be fearless in the Lord does not require us to be great and powerful men, but only to believe in the great and powerful God.

Our basic problem today is that we have two religions in conflict, humanism and Christianity, each with its own morality and the laws of that morality.

It must be recognized that in any culture the source of law is the god of that society

The result of becoming tolerant towards sin is that we become intolerant towards God and His Word.

History has never been dominated by majorities, but only by dedicated minorities who stand unconditionally on their faith.

Christianity is completely and radically anti-democratic; it is committed to spiritual aristocracy.

Art is my life and my life is art.

Who knows when a trenchant line becomes a human face?

Not for everyone a darkest night is bid farewell by a bright sunrise.

For the record, I'm not an indecisive person, and I'm not a coward. I just have a very detailed imaginary life, and it sometimes takes precedence over what's actually happening around me.

Life is simply a collective thought. Didn't you know we made it all up? Don't you know it can be different?

I love the characters not knowing everything and the reader knowing more than them. There's more mischief in that and more room for seriousness, too.

Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries Is not the goal but the exercise.

The Western model for a meeting is you have an agenda and you come in and everyone says things.

War is both the product of an earlier corruption, and a producer of new corruptions.

I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world accurate.