Words are naught but wind, and the fairest promises like dreams that take flight with the morning.

God alone is true; God alone is great; alone is God.

Duplicity is necessary in daily life, in that it covers many unpleasant things from sight, so they may not disturb the pleasure of others.

The day of death ... is one of the five mysteries, the key of which God holds in his own hands.

With patience everything comes in due season.

To live in God is death; to die in God is life.

All the vices lead to fortune when they are joined with the vilest of all--avarice. This is the secret of life.

Satan is cunning and man is weak, but God rules the heart of his faithful, and does what he will.

I've never been poor only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is a temporary situation.

I became a Christian before I got sober. So I was a drunk, bulimic Christian.

[Establishment] raided the wealth for themselves and taken our jobs away out of our country never to return unless I'm elected president.

Nobody with a good car needs to be justified.

Whoever thinks much and to good purpose easily forgets his own experiences, but not the thoughts which these experiences have called forth.

People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.

My father, the practical joker, did not care for practical jokes on himself; he did not encourage the practice in me.

Mastery is not a question of genetics of luck, but of following your natural inclinations and the deep desires that stirs you from within.

If I melt dry ice, can I swim without getting wet?

One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my characters face.