Americans like to make money, Canadians like to count it.

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.

There is only one way to degrade mankind permanently and that is to destroy language.

Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.

Even the human heart is slightly left of centre.

We are always in the place of beginning; there is no advance in infinity.

The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.

This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature.

Man lives, not directly or nakedly in nature like the animals, but within a mythological universe, a body of assumptions and beliefs developed from his existential concerns.

The bible should be taught so early and so thoroughly that it sinks straight to the bottom of the mind where everything that comes along can settle on it.

It seems clear that the Bible belongs to an area of language in which metaphor is functional, and were we have to surrender precision for flexibility.

In the strength of thine on desires is a magic power.

If a person do not seek God’s face, all of his merits will be working for evil

I look at other people my age in this industry, other famous people my age, and they've just got famous friends. Which is cool, but I love being normal and just chilling at mine.

Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.

I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful - an endless prospect of magic and wonder.

Jealousy seems the absolute reversal of love. It is the swinging from the sunny warmth of the Equator to the frigid cold of the North Pole.

Your business and results are a reflection of you. Your business and results will grow in direct proportion to your own growth.

The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.

When I'm writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we feel, how we lose and stand up, and go on from darkness into darkness.

You can only have one first born child. You may love all your children deeply and with passion, but there is something unique about the first born.