Born on Monday fair in the face Born on Tuesday full of God's grace Born on Wednesday sour and sad Born on Thursday merry and glad Born on Friday worthily given

We can only keep what we have by being willing to freely give it away; a paraphrase of Jesus Christ.

Best smiles come after the toughest time.

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

If God is for us, who can be against us?

If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

Why not learn to enjoy the little things-there are so many of them.

Remember the past, plan for the future, but live for today, because yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

God helps those who help themselves.

When we are filled with the Spirit of God, obeying God, in His will and quoting Scripture, Satan will be defeated.

To me playing third base and left field and moving all over the place, it doesn't bother me because I still have to grab that bat and hit no matter where I play.

Good characters the reader cares about combined with an intriguing plot. Do those two and you've got it made.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

It's just plain learning something that you didn't know. There is a real aesthetic experience in being dumbfounded.

My desire, my passion, was to help moms with practical encouragement.

But some people can't tell where it hurts. They can't calm down. They can't ever stop howling.

You can't uninvent things, you can only make them obsolete... Ronald Reagan understood that the surest method of neutralising any weapon is to make it obsolete.

I never storyboard. I hate it. I don't understand why so many directors want to make comic strips of their films.

I've never written a children's book, but when people meet me for the first time and I say I write books, they invariably reply, 'Children's books?' Maybe it's something about my face.