Hatred and bitterness and anger only consume the vessel that contains them. It doesn't hurt another soul.

To live in a world where truth matters and justice, however late, really happens, that world would be heaven enough for us all.

Men without dignity are like clowns without an audience, pathetic and lost

Bitterness only consumes the vessel that contains it.

You can gain reconciliation from your enemies, but you can only gain peace from yourself.

The strategies of offense and defense are very similar between chess and football. Chess really brought closeness to the team back in those days.

You see, " she concluded miserably, "when I can call like that to him across space--I belong to him. He doesn't love me--he never will--but I belong to him.

If you can get others to believe that your random guesses are actual answers, they’ll never guess that you never understood the question in the first place.

Time will take everything away from life, so why are we not giving something away with time?

If you want people to believe you, appeal to their hearts not to their brains

The journey into God’s heart will lead you into such depths of love as you have never dreamt possible

Eric waited all his life for love and, in meeting, Tina thought he had it. What he got wasn't quite what he'd dreamed about.

If you are weary of some sleepy form of devotion, probably God is as weary of it as you are.

I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that.

It's really important to me to keep growing as a writer, to look for new challenges and be harshly critical of my own work in order to learn and tell better stories.

I was really young, but I can't say that I wrote much of anything. I liked to scribble; I thought of it as that. But I was playing guitar and ukulele when I was in second grade.