If a woman tells you how terrible she looks, sincerely deny it, even if you agree.

Hear others, and you will be heard.Understand others, and you will be understood.Help others, and you be will be helped.Love others, and you will be loved.

A leaf has no power to resist when the wind blows, but when life’s storms rage, you do.

Critics are loud, but success is louder.

A flower does not lose its beauty because it grew on concrete.

Flawed genius is better than flawless talent.

Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.

...if Faith shows up in your dreams again tonight, do yourself a favor and dream on.

In order for grace to truly be grace, it has to extend to absolutely everyone, no matter what, no questions, no exceptions. Otherwise we think that somehow, by living a moral life...we've deserved it

She already loved me too much to see me as I was.

Oh, so seldom does fate cast our enemy into our hands, to do with as we will

You led the soldiers right to my family's door. You're the reason they're dead.

To save and maintain the beauty of nature

Our mistakes won't irreparably damage our lives unless we let them.

If a person gives you his time he can give you no more precious gift.

Our faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom of God upon the earth is more sublime and more compelling.