The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.

Faith does not operate in the realm of the possible. There is no glory for God in that which is humanly possible. Faith begins where man's power ends.

I live in the spirit of prayer. I pray as I walk about, when I lie down and when I rise up. And the answers are always coming.

The only way to learn strong faith is to endure great trials.

God not only orders our steps, He orders our stops.

Intimate knowledge of God is possible if we habitually search His Holy Scriptures & translate what we find into obedience.

The word of God is our only standard, and the Holy Spirit our only teacher.

Our heavenly Father never takes anything from his children unless he means to give them something better.

The vigor of our spiritual life will be in exact proportion to the place held by the Bible in our life and thoughts.

The first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day is to have my soul happy in the Lord.

Never give up praying until the answer comes.

Success is defined, not by what you achieve in life, but by what you do for others without expectations.

I hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night

Don't be too obvious about it.

I succeed him no one could replace him.

I've always approached screenplays and so forth with, "How would it really happen?" Not "What's the movie version?" but "What's the real-life version?" Then I just follow my nose.

[On children:] Being built closer to the floor, they can dust the baseboards in half the time.

The new European Soviet.

One of the many hazards of socializing with vampires. It makes you smell bad. A minor hazard, comparatively.

Most films go out like skydivers who have had their chutes packed by a committee of blind schizophrenics.

When I'm out there, I don't think about anything. I just grip it and rip it. I don't like to worry about technique.