The rain hit the windows like rice

Smugness is the Great Catholic Sin.

This is my life... my story... my book. I will no longer let anyone else write it

My family didn't have money to travel, so reading was how I knew about the world. It made me hungry to have more experiences than just what I could possibly experience in Arkansas.

Political Science carries inseparably with it the study of piety, and that he who is not pious cannot be truly wise.

Through practice, gently and gradually we can collect ourselves and learn how to be more fully with what we do.

The success of God's Word in our lives is linked intrinsically to our application of its truth.

No man - I don't care how colossal his intellect - No man is greater than his prayer life.

We actually did quite a lot of comedy on 'Xena'. The whole show was very tongue-in-cheek.

Gladiators seek to best all, it is how they survive

It's difficult to tell the truth about how a book begins. The truth, as far as it can be presented to other people, is either wholly banal or too intimate.