If you want something, but you can't have it for now. Hold it, wait for the time and somehow, someday you'll get a chance that if you really want it you could have it.

Believe it in your heart; say it with your mouth. That is the principle of faith. You can have what you say.

If what you hear preached doesn't cause faith to come and build faith in your spirit, then it either isn't the Word of God or else you're not hearing it

Feeling is the voice of the body; reasoning is the voice of the mind; conscience is the voice of the spirit.

Our confession will either imprison us or set us free. Our confession is the result of our believing, and our believing is the result of our right or wrong thinking.

Central Truth: Prayer is successful only when it is based on the promises in God’s Word!

Thinking faith thoughts, and speaking faith words, will lead the heart out of defeat and into victory.

Success is always the result of following the leading of the Holy Spirit.

Never base your faith on your feelings. Base it on God's Word.

The seeds you are harvesting today were planted by the words of your mouth yesterday.

When you decide to walk by faith, you don't get rid of trials. You learn to overcome them.

I wanted a library like this...[] A cave of words that I'd made myself.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

I know myself too well to believe in pure virtue.

Men have learned to shoot without missing their mark and I have learned to fly without perching on a twig.

I seem to be incapable of playing that guy that always does the right thing, who always responds well in any circumstance.

We are supposed to share the gospel. So, I believe it can actually be a sinful thing to not do it.

No town can fail of beauty, though its walks were gutters and its houses hovels, if venerable trees make magnificent colonnades along its streets.

Method acting? There are quite a few methods. Mine involves a lot of talent, a glass, and some cracked ice.

We started tearing down the seniority system on Capitol Hill. All of that begins in the '70s. It accelerates and continues in the '90s, and it's going on to this day.

As I published books, I realized, that's not really what I want. I don't care about the books as much anymore. I just want to write poetry.