The big secret is the ability to stay in the room.

In grammar school they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fairy tale. In the university they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fact!

Idolatry is not simply worshiping a stone image; idolatry is any concept of God that reduces Him to less than who He really is.

I always write about my own experiences, whether I've had them or not.

Key to all fiction, long or short, is to remember that the wolfman did not want the moon.

The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which we live.

The writer is the person who stays in the room.

I'm not trying as a writer to be smart or to understand the inner workings of my narrator, I'm trying to survive the typing of this story.

You need to find your gift, something that differs you from others

Almost every rapper has a track that talks about their dreams.

It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight.

If you don't have a good model for success, just look at what everybody else is doing and do the opposite.

Good-nature is one of the richest fruits of true Christianity.

The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.

Years ago, women sat in the kitchen drinking coffee and discussing life. Now they discuss the same topics while they run.

George Bush says what John Kerry did was noble. Yet he sees him being savaged by his own supporters.

There is nothing in life so difficult that it cannot be overcome. This faith can move mountains. It can change people. It can change the world. You can survive all the great storms in your life

Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul's beauty.