There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.

Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.

We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.

You can get what you want. It depends on the strength of your desire.

The world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify.

I think writers worry that you might not exist in some strange way if you're not writing.

The drinking of wine seems to me to have a moral edge over many pleasures and hobbies in that it promotes love of one's neighbor.

The actor needs to find out what the basic fight is in every character in every scene.

The way to my heart is by being truthful and spontaneous.

If you worry, you are a worrier because your mind is saturated with worry thoughts. To counteract these, mark every passage in your Bible that speaks of faith, hope, and courage.

The essence of bravery is being without self-deception.

If a body can no longer be accentuated, it should be abstracted.