The journey of motherhood centers on being the person God has chosen out of all humanity and space and time to care for these souls, these beings who will exist for all eternity.

If you want to treat your book as a child, the finished book should be an adult, capable to stand on its own legs and able to weather the thunder. Not a baby that still needs to be defended.

The deepest problems of the human race are spiritual in nature. They are rooted in man’s refusal to seek God’s way for his life. The problem is the human heart, which God alone can change.

...heaven may be only the mind's fear of the wonders it imagines.

God made food; the devil the cooks.

Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.

If you [Americans] behave with disrespect - even just a little bit - [the Iranian people] will punch you in the mouth so hard that all your devouring teeth will fall off.

Sometimes I wish that just solving the plot problems was enough. And then elves would go and do all the actual work moving the words around.

Be strong, get beyond all superstitions, and be free.

The thing about God, she thought, is that He usually does help, but not until you've made an effort on your own.

Having a phobia has changed me.