Why should any man have power over any other man's faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it?

Be still and cool in thine own mind and spirit.

I saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death, but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness.

Some people would not be dead if they have not gotten the things or people they had prayed for.

Grace has a face. It is Jesus Christ.

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

fantasizing is one of the earliest languages in the child's mind. We are in touch with our imagination and dreams before we engage with logic and reason.

At any given period in history the ideas of the common mind are found to antedate the facts. The facts of the twentieth century are approached with the ideas, feelings, prejudices of the tenth.

To embody a character, you have to lose all judgment about them.

If diversity is what is a central value in every selective university in the United States, then it ought to be seen as a compelling interest by the Supreme Court.

Germany needs to have a handicap, like in golf. They ought to start each match with two goals in advance to their opposition.

American businesses deserve a federal government that doesn't stand in their way, not one that tries to chase them overseas.

Metafiction says something. It has to do with taking a large fiction itself and writing within it; that kind of self-reflecting writing that emerges from it can be thought of as metafictional.