You’ve only had a small glimpse of how insufferable and annoying I can be. As the older brother, it’s my birthright.

There is a reason for everything. You might not be able to figure it out, and time might have made us all forget it, but the reason is there all the same.

Positive thoughts lead to positive results.

Trusting is hard. Knowing who to trust, even harder.

But you've slipped under my skin, invaded my blood and seized my heart.

Everyone makes choices in life. Some bad, some good. It's called living, and if you want to bow out, then go right ahead. But don't do it halfway. Don't linger in whiner's limbo.

I’ll have you know that the most delicate flowers often produce the strongest scent when crushed.

I offer my heart, entrust my soul and give my life to you.

Love trumps logic?" "Every time.

Trust, Kiki said, Trust is peppermints.

You can't let the past ruin your future.

The woods are full of regional writers, and it is the great horror of every serious Southern writer that he will become one of them.

If our faith isn’t rooted in the Bible, it will wither like a plant pulled out of the soil.

Give me an old house full of memories and I will give you hundred novels!

Liberation is the path of transcendence. Manifestation is the path of immanence. Both lead to the same place: the divine.

I was a blacksmith's boy but yesterday; I am - what shall I say I am today?

Every man is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing.

For one who has made thanksgiving the habit of his life, the morning prayer will be, 'Lord, what will you give me today to offer back to you?'

I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world because they'd never expect it.

Just because it's true, doesn't mean it's believable or interesting.

Since I was a small child, I'd believed we were inherently perfect, and that we had to keep coming back again and again until we recognized our innate perfection.