Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them.

I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.

All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change. God is Change.

In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn.

To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.

Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers.

Kindness eases change Love quiets fear

When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.

We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose.

There is no end To what a living world Will demand of you.

Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be.

regrets are stepping stone towards improvement

what is a journeywithout someone who wandersif sometimes a pairis made of two

Can we ever see the truth when desire blinds us? Or do we call it the truth because it is what we wish to see?

I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.

Only weak men want women to be weak.

Having once been so high, humanity fell so low. What had once been dedicated to the soul was now dedicated to the sale.

Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds: Men live on the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which yet they never enter, and with their hand on the doorlatch they die outside.

Facts do not 'speak for themselves'; they are read in the light of theory.

Glory in nothing, but only in this, that you are in Christ. For God chose you in him; the being you had was in him before the world was.

A refusal of nature as a model is a tradition that goes right back to Oscar Wilde.