Books, for me, are a home. Books don’t make a home – they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. ….

Women complicate everything..

It is through others that we become ourselves..

No one's ever gotten better by practicing less..

I had lots of breaks. I guess the one that got my foot in the door was singing the National Anthem at the National Finals Rodeo in Oklahoma City in '….

A marriage can go wrong at any time..

Our work is to preach the gospel and we must not be sidetracked..

Love opens all doors, no matter how tightly closed they may be, no matter how rusty from lack of use. Your work is to bring unity and harmony, to ope….

I'm a very conceptual writer..

If you become a star known for one thing, that becomes your thing, and you don't want that, on some DNA level..

I'd rather buy something that is relatively depressed than something that is relatively high..

That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good ….

What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None a….

I think that if you keep banging at the door all you need is a little foothold, a little tiny foothold, and then the rest will take care of itself..

The door to the soul is unlocked; you do not need to please the doorkeeper, the door in front of you is yours, intended for you, and the doorkeeper o….

You have to take everything as it comes..

It's OK to not be OK - just don't stay there..

I'd rather work to live than live to work..

God is either everything, or He is nothing..

Fifteen years ago, God unequivocally and undeniably gave me Isaiah 22:22 as a life-verse. "Then I will set the key of the house of David on his shoul….

That is the manner in which I roll..