The most dangerous trap is just living and forgetting that God exists.

What I was saved to is much more important than what I was saved from.

Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.

You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.

There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.

The urge to revolt is one of the essential dimensions of human nature.

As soon as one does not kill oneself, one must keep silent about life.

Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing.

We come into the world laden with the weight of an infinite necessity.

Who taught you all this, doctor?" The reply came promptly: "Suffering.

There is time not only to see who has done what, but to speculate why.

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom!

Know the difference between your necessary and discretionary expenses.

Thus people--so it seems to me-- Become good friends from sheer ennui.

I was the kind of kid who was always making up stories and adventures.

Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.

You were made to soar, to crash to earth, then to rise and soar again.

I realized I was a country person - I'm just not used to small spaces.

I'm not lesbian; I'm not bisexual; I'm not straight. I'm just curious.

There are thousands of Palestinians in prison virtually for no reason.

Don't believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that - thoughts.

I've thrown enough punches in my life to know when someone is hurting.

Measurement is like laundry. It piles up the longer you wait to do it.

Small mind competes, big mind collaborates and great mind encompasses.

In the land of light there is only one currency. The currency of love.

Mystical bliss, joy and rapture arises when you realize the inner Sun.

The worst kind of brokenness is the kind that you don’t know you have.

If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses

The self is merely the lens through which we see others and the world.

I have no brakes on...analysis is for those who are paralyzed by life.

Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.

A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly

The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.

It took me six novels before I felt confident of my voice as a writer.

Everything comes to an end, only objects are left to pine in the dark.

A hero holds purposes appropriate to man and is, therefore, a thinker.

There's only one thing to do with politics, and that is to survive it.

The Dixiecrats meet again in New York. Now they're called Republicans.

I didn't start out angry. I started out a young man wanting adventure.

One of my great secrets was knowing I had the power to make her smile.

My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are.

A man hasn't got a corner on virtue just because his shoes are shined.

Because nothing is greater and we have no greater need, God gives God.

knowledge of our own mortality is the greatest gift God ever gives us.

She represented the distilled essence of the battle between the sexes.

Reading aloud means no skipping, no skimming, no cutting to the chase.

Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?

The weak die out and the strong will survive, and will live on forever

I can't let them see my doubts, or the wounds they've inflicted on me.

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