...when men ignite in their hearts a religious fury, they inflict at the same time a blindness on their eyes.

I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow.

The really great writers are people like Emily Brontë who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.

Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.

I have never thought of myself as a good writer. Anyone who wants reassurance of that should read one of my first drafts. But I'm one of the world's great rewriters.

I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.

If your book doesn't keep you up nights when you are writing it, it won't keep anyone up nights reading it.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

We need days of failure because they help humble us, and through them we can see how God's grace is poured out on the humble.

What the sunshine is to the flower, the Lord Jesus Christ is to my soul.

You cannot get a new economy without a new society.

I'm not confident with the ladies. I can't just ask someone out in a club. I'd like to say I'm a gentleman.

One thing worse than self-hatred is chiggers.

Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.

Vision is something pastors and churches cannot afford to live without.

Those who desire to become rich, desire it at once.

I'm just a skinny kid from Maywood trying to do my best. I never took anything for granted. I never wanted to come off like some kind of big-headed, conceited athlete.

I seem to have fallen for women with missing parents. Goodness knows what it signifies.