The offspring of virtue is perseverance. The fruit and offspring of perseverance is habit and child of habit is character.

Do not be surprised that you fall every day; do not give up, but stand your ground courageously. And assuredly, the angel who guards you will honour your patience.

Humility is the only virtue that no devil can imitate. If pride made demons out of angels, there is no doubt that humility could make angels out of demons.

An angel fell from Heaven without any other passion except pride, and so we may ask whether it is possible to ascend to Heaven by humility alone, without any other of the virtues.

Humility is constant forgetfulness of one's achievements.

Repentance lifts a man up. Mourning knocks at heaven's gate. Holy humility opens it.

Obedience is the burial of the will and the resurrection of humility.

The lover of silence draws close to God. He talks to Him in secret and God enlightens him.

When a man has found the Lord, he no longer has to use words when he is praying, for the Spirit Himself will intercede for him with groans that cannot be uttered.

A servant of the Lord stands bodily before men, but mentally he is knocking at the gates of heaven with prayer.

Confession is like a bridle that keeps the soul which reflects on it from committing sin, but anything left unconfessed we continue to do without fear as if in the dark.

I am starting to talk fast now, and I have to remember to slow down because when I get excited, I start to sound like myself and my American accent goes away.

Still waters run deep.

What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.

She better liked to see him free and happy, even than to have him near her, because she loved him better than herself.

You never answer a question nobody does.

When I am writing, I'm very much on the ground, on the same ground my characters are treading.

Things don't change, people change.

My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.

My concern is never art, but always what art can be used for.

You have to always look ahead, always be positive. It's your choice, your destiny. You have to enjoy life.