Attitude determines the altitude of life.

You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Confidentiality is a virtue of the loyal, as loyalty is the virtue of faithfulness.

Maturity comes not with age but with the acceptance of responsibility. You are only young once but immaturity can last a lifetime!

Expectancy is the atmosphere for miracles.

Your faithfulness makes you trustworthy to God.

God never ends anything on a negative; God always ends on a positive.

Winners are not those who never fail, but those who never quit.

Being a male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of choice.

God authors desires in your heart, then fulfills His Will by enabling you to realize those desires.

Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives.

A sequence of random events isn't really random at all. It's just made to look that way so it will ensnare the unwary.

The soul, they say, is divine and the flesh is iniquity. But I am a musician and I ask this - without the wood and the strings of the violin, where would the sonata find form?

To hear for the duration of a heartbeat the universe and the totality of life in its mysterious, innate harmony.

Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature.

If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory.

I'm no good at describing my books. 'Holes' has been out now for seven years, and I still can't come up with a good answer when asked what that book is about.

I've always been a fan of Andy Kaufman.

When that band started out, I was 18 years old. So that was my reality all the way up until I quit the band. And even then, you know, Guns N' Roses has a nasty way of sticking around.

What I do in my own time, is my business.