Keep your eye on eternal goals

We should always pray for help, but we should always listen for inspiration and impression to proceed in ways different from those we may have thought of.

Sometimes God calms the storm and sometimes He calms his child.

There is a connection between heaven and earth. Finding that connection gives meaning to everything, including death. Missing it makes everything meaningless, including life.

God's love fills the immensity of space; therefore, there is no shortage of love in the universe, only in our willingness to do what is needed to feel it.

You cannot compromise principles to achieve unity

We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness behind.

Nothing spiritual to write? Then have spiritual experiences.

Jesus made saving repentance possible and He made baptism meaningful.

You develop faith by doing things that require faith.

Our joy now and forever is inextricably tied to our capacity to love.

My mother's psychologist says I have an overactive anger switch, but people just keep pissing me off.

People forget history nowadays, that is what the ego does, making one the prisoner of one's inflated present, ignoring the humble past one had lived.

What is there in the vale of life Half so delightful as a wife When Friendship love and peace combine To stamp the marriage bond divine?

I think the first British actor who really worked well in cinema was Albert Finney. He was a back-street Marlon Brando. He brought a great wittiness and power to the screen. The best actor we've had.

Me"? I know a lot of "me's," actually, so which one are you?

Ever notice, the ones who deny the holocaust are usually the same ones who want to repeat it?

Bookstores never seem to know where to put me on the shelves. But I do. I love my genre and I love those writers, so I am happy to be considered a crime writer. That's what I consider myself.

As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything.

travel is compost for the mind

Professionally I felt like a horse running in the wrong race.