I always thought a shipwreck was a well-organized affair, but I've learned the devil a lot in the last five minutes.

It's all right to drill your crew, but why not drill the passengers.

He disliked the social obligations of the captaincy.

They looked more like day laborers than seamen.

There were always those passengers who came aboard bearing grudges against the modern age.

Murder was a fascination as always.

New York's perennial attraction was shopping.

If you had to jump six or seven feet or certainly drown, it's surprising how far even older people will jump.

During World War I, Germany had only 25 of its vaunted submarines sailing at any one time.

My prophetic task would be twofold: to stand up to him, and to stand by him. To awaken his conscience, and to salve the pain this would cause him.

My between-books strategy was reading voraciously and on a whim.

I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

Finally I reached into my pocket and flipped a quarter. Heads was Phlox, tails was Arthur. It came up heads. I called Arthur.

I hate and I love, and who can tell me why?

Every time I have had a breakthrough in my life, it has been because of Prayer

I learned a lesson which I didn't heed: Don't put yourself in your movies. It's too much.

If the outcome is good, what's the difference between motives that sound good and good, sound motives?

I'm vulnerable reading people's comments on Facebook.

The joy of the Gospel is for all people: no one can be excluded.

Marketing is a contest for people's attention.

Don't listen to people who tell you what to do. Listen people who encourage you to do what's right in your heart.