When you can turn people on their head and shake them and no money falls out, then you know God's saying, "Move on, son."

We're all golden sunflowers inside.

Which way will the sunflower turn surrounded by millions of suns?

You have to go through good times and bad times to get where you're trying to go.

I don't want to be another Jordan, Magic, or Isiah. When my career is over, I want to be able to look in the mirror and say 'I did it my way'.

I'd rather have more heart than talent any day.

I play every game like it's my last game. All that matters is that you go out there and play every game as if it was your last.

If you are walking with Jesus, in the Spirit, you need not fear going too far. No believer has gone as far as God wants him to go

The Lord was pleased to strengthen us, and remove all fear from us, and disposed our hearts to be as useful as possible.

Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.

I'm not perfect. But I am trying every day to concentrate on being better.

What words cannot convey ... the mind can read.

The pity is not that there is a myth of Sylvia Plath but that the myth is not simply that of an enormously gifted poet whose death came carelessly, by mistake, and too soon.

I think the sensible thing would be to focus on one thing and be the best you can be at it. There is always that risk of spreading yourself too thin if you try to do too much.

Short stories amount for the most part to parlour tricks, party favours with built-in snappers, gadgets for including recognition and reversals

I'm what you'd call a regular guy with a big job.

It’s a matter of time; you adapt to the different culture and different way of life. Human beings are adaptable.

Go, little book, and wish to all Flowers in the garden, meat in the hall, A bin of wine, a spice of wit, A house with lawns enclosing it, A living river by the door, A nightingale in the sycamore!

I don't even know if Stephenie [Meyer] could tell you why she was so fixated on [Twilight] very, very contained story about these very obsessive characters. It's just an anomaly.

There are three sorts of lawyers - able, unable and lamentable.

What's next? Shall we appoint elephants to teach zoology?