Egypt is coming back - is becoming - is going to become, you know, a center of excellence for the region and maybe for the rest of the world.

I think we need to maintain the good relationship between the people of Egypt and the people of the United States.

The defining lines of reality have always been a bit blurred for me.

Against Self-PityIt gets you nowhere but deeper intoyour own shit--pure misery a luxuryone never learns to enjoy.

Thoroughly to believe in one's own self, so one's self were thorough, were to do great things.

Don't ever let good enough be good enough.

There's something deep inside of me. There's someone else I've got to be.

When the Lord Jesus Christ gives a man remission of sins, He also gives him repentance.

Revival begins in the individual's heart. Let it begin with you on your face alone before God. Turn from every sin that might hinder. Renew yourself to a new devotion to the Savior.

In the distance, the gestures of animals look human, the gestures of human beings bestial.

For your kindness, I'm in debt to you. For your selflessness, my admiration.

A novel, basically, is writing one sentence — then, without violating the scope of the first one, writing the next sentence.