The wise man understands his weakness and seeks to find a lesson from it. The fool lets it control and destroy him.

All nights end, and all storms clear. The only storms that last are those within your own soul.

Clarity is often found in stillness.

We best teach what we ourselves have learned.

I really do enjoy getting out to meet my readers. Writing is such a solitary business, it's gratifying to thank folks in person and really connect as human beings and not just words on a screen.

Fear makes people do cruel things, things they'll be ashamed of later

It's an old and honored tradition for war heroes to be promoted to important offices, whether or not they're suited to it

It was never a big leap from "unfamiliar" to "suspected

Share your aspirations only with those who will support you, not those who will respond with doubt or lack of interest.

Time: old cold time, old sorrow, settling down in layers like silt in a pond.

We can make this a more peaceful century if we cherish non-violence and concern for others’ well-being.

The only side God chooses is one of commonsense. If it doesn’t make sense

I am a party! Everywhere I go is a party!

Christians are not perfect, and all of us do sin along the way. But genuine Christians hear His voice and follow Him.

The only label I would choose for myself is Christian, but if you pushed me and you say, 'What sort of Christian are you?' I'm an Anglican.

Hence it is that old men do plant young trees, the fruit whereof another age shall take.

The quiet, singing voice of the rose. The song that promised all might be well, all might be well, that all manner of things might be well.

Sorrow, like a heavy ringing bell, once set on ringing, with its own weight goes; then little strength rings out the doleful knell.