You have chosen the roughest road, but it leads straight to the hilltops.

You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

If my life is fruitless, it doesn't matter who praises me, and if my life is fruitful, it doesn't matter who criticizes me.

You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge to Satan.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

The difference between true and false repentance lies in this: the man who truly repents cries out against his heart; but the other, as Eve, against the serpent, or something else.

What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it.

No man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures.

If people really see that Christ has removed the fear of punishment from them by taking it into Himself, they won't do whatever they want, they'll do whatever He wants.

The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.

Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.

I think if a story has a message it should be incidental and accidental, otherwise it leans too close to indoctrination.

All children think unkindly of their parents at some time or another

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

I can't complain about the roles that have come my way.

On the plane was a Time magazine and there was a 30 page article on diabetes, and I read every page. By the time that plane landed, I had diabetes.

God, I had great people in my life.

Joking is a barrier between man and the world. Joking is the enemy of love and poetry.

Most leaders don't need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop.

One must know one's own secret.

Images have a unique power to impart that which is beyond words.