Since life comes just once, I encourage you to give it your best shot. I dare you to maximize your life.

Another distraction that deviates people from their God given purpose and calling is the distraction of job and formal education.

Solitude with God is a place for pregnancy.

Solitude with God is a place for pregnancy. Solitude is also a place to receive great ideas and creative ideas from God. The power of imagination is strongest in the place of solitude.

You can come into the rest of God through solitude.

It is a great thing to be able to make God your source and the time of solitude presents you with that opportunity.

God has made the provision for every man on earth to be equally endowed.

Every human being is equally wealthy according to God’s divine providence.

We are products of their wisdom or lack of wisdom.

This ignorance of what to do with time is the number one reason why people get bored so easily when alone with nothing to do.

The world gives a way to the man who knows where he is going.

I have no clue [why people say I'm insane]. Every time I've heard it, it came from an ugly person's mouth, so I don't care.

I paint a tree - I think of how the roots go deep, deep into the earth. How the tree grows year by year toward the sky. How it stands with the winds.

I'm obsessed with heels.

Crackdowns on Internet content make clear the need for an anonymized Web. Now, someone just needs to implement it.

Having a day job again I found really kind of fueled my fiction, because it became almost this forbidden thing where I had to sneak off and do it in private.

A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.

My, how busy we become when we lose sight of how God loves us.

A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.

There are some places where history just grabs you by the jugular. This is one of them.

My mother was the making of me.