Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.

But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is likely to mirror less what a man was than what he has become.

My heart thrashes in time with my feet pounding across the cold, hard ground. I can’t run any faster, longer, and yet I must. My life and my family’s survival depends on it.

It is a negative sort of achievement, she thinks, to have spent a life warding something off.

History is a tragegy, not a morality tale.

Everyone has stress. A good run may not erase it, but it can reduce the effect and allow runners to gain control.

Pastors and missionaries (need) to know God and to find in him a Treasure more satisfying than any other person or thing or relationship or experience or accomplishment in the world.

In the desert, an old monk had once advised a traveler, the voices of God and the Devil are scarcely distinguishable.

I think I'd like to be inspirational to anyone who has a dream, anyone who wants to make more of their life than maybe what is set out in front of them. And you can!

My church is the world! I want to bring the gospel to as broad and as interesting an audience as possible.

Education is an imprecise process, a dance, and a collaborative experience.

A false man found a religion? Why, a false man cannot build a brick house!