You have wings, I have roots.

Important principles may and must be flexible.

There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy.

Even as a child, even as my blood-past was drained from me, I understood that if I were strong enough to accept it, I was being offered a second history.

Love is pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause, and hatred pain accompanied by the idea of an external cause.

A man in a passion, rides a mad horse.

God is in charge, waiting for His people to challenge the rulers of the earth and take the steering wheel from them, ... the battle for the earth is currently going on.

Life is all about experiencing the full range of emotions.

A positive mental attitude is an irresistible force that knows no such thing as an immovable body.

To name the world in your own terms, to tell your own story, is an act of authority and power. When you write, you are saying, in effect, 'I have a voice. I have a story. This is what I have to say.'

The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.