In prayer we can approach God with complete assurance of His ability to answer us. There is no limit to what we can ask, if it is according to His will.

Faithful continued prayer is one key to answered prayer. As James expresses it, "You do not have, because you do not ask God" (James 4:2).

To escape from the world means that one's mind is not concerned with the opinions of the world.

There is no greater success than turning your true passion into a dream, and seeing its reality come to manifestation.

I believe we make our own destinies, every last one of us.

This is good, ” he told her.
She gave him a slow blink. “You like wine?”
“Doesn’t everyone?”
“You strike me as a beer-from-the-can kind of guy.”
“I am.”

When you force sleep, it doesn't happen.

Children are natural mythologists: they beg to be told tales, and love not only to invent but to enact falsehoods.

I can write absolutely anywhere. All I need is a laptop.

People who bring transformative change have courage, know how to re-frame the problem and have a sense of urgency.

My work is the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird - equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums.

Sure Man was born to meditate on things, And to contemplate the eternal springs Of God and Nature, glory, bliss and pleasure: That life and love might be his eternal treasure.