Whenever your focus is on doing what you want and making yourself feel good, you can be confident that the Spirit of God is not the one leading the way.

The promises of prayer are extraordinary, but for prayer to work as God promises it to work, it must be purged of self and doubt.

No matter how outlandishly audacious your prayers might sound in your own ears, they are nothing in light of God's willingness and ability to answer.

Prayer puts God in the position He deserves - that of King, Governor, Benign Controller, Possessor, Lord, and Master.

Prayer is not first and foremost talking to God, it's first and foremost listening to God.

I discovered that those who seldom dwell on their emotions know better than anyone else just what an emotion is.

Sleep ... peace of the soul who put-test care to flight.

When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.

Only the continuous and steady application of the methods for suppressing a doctrine, etc., makes it possible for a plan to succeed.

When friends and acquaintances are telling you [that] you are a genius, before you accept their opinion, take a moment to remember what you always thought of their opinions in the past.

Writing really is a difficult craft and there are many parts to master.

I don't know why people are so obsessed with age anyway. I mean, 90 is the new 70 70 is the new 50 and 50 is the new 40 so the whole act-your-age thing? Only up to a point.

Time, on its own, heals nothing.

There is a difference between looking all right in a shirt and taking the shirt off. The older that us dudes get, the more the paunch has to be worked on. It's hard.

You're a sum of all your experiences.