Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer.

We can only keep what we have by being willing to freely give it away; a paraphrase of Jesus Christ.

Best smiles come after the toughest time.

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

If God is for us, who can be against us?

If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

Why not learn to enjoy the little things-there are so many of them.

Remember the past, plan for the future, but live for today, because yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

God helps those who help themselves.

You have the dreams that you want, and then you have to do other jobs until you can get to that dream.

I had known a couple of people who had died, but the loss of my mother contained something of the profoundly unknowable.

Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.

she knew what she wanted and it wasn't / me. / I know more women like that than any / other kind.

Learning another language is like becoming another person.

As a writer, you have to believe you're one of the best writers in the world. To sit down every day at the typewriter filled with self-doubt is not a good idea.

Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.

I really like Blade. I wish people would make hard R-rated fantasy movies again. It's completely irrelevant, but people should do that more. I haven't seen that many vampire things.

Everything was becoming allegorical, understood by the group mind, and especially this: "You're either on the bus...or off the bus.