Do not let your peace depend on what people say of you... True peace and joy is to be found in [Jesus] alone.

Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.

He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.

A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; Every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!

If you want to learn something that will really help you, learn to see yourself as God sees you and not as you see yourself in the distorted mirror of your own self-importance.

To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love.

Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things.

First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.

Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is.

Don't bite his face, Eleanor told herself. It's disturbing and needy and never happens in situation comedies or movies that end with big kisses.

It's not my brain that's writing the book, it's these hands of mine.

Large families are communities unto their own.

The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour to the latest generation.

I believe that there's a force of life in the universe, and that when we're writing or making music or painting, we're likely to connect with that flow.

People think they have to be ambitious. But at a certain age, all you want is to be around nice, decent people.

When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice.

Everybody needs a hug. It changes your metabolism.

The absolutist takes himself to speak to the ages, with the tongue of angels, but the relativist hears only one version among others, the subjectivity of the here and now.

Big Bang is what made me who I am today. With them, I laugh the most, and I feel like I can achieve things