There's no time for conversation dear, moan is all I want to hear.
There is no greater disease than the loss of hope.
Most men worry about their own bellies and other people's souls, when we all ought to be worried about our own souls and other people's bellies.
Spirituality is like a bird: If you hold it too closely, it chokes, And if you hold it too loosely, it escapes.
To be a successful businessman, you must have remarkable talents; and if you have such talents, why waste them on business?
True salvation can come only to a person who renders service to the community.
Writing is one of the easiest things: erasing is one of the hardest.
The love of God has been described as the highest, noblest, strongest kind of love and the most joyous to the soul.
I make up the characters in my books, but of course my consciousness is filled with every child I've ever known, including my two grandchildren, my own kids (I had four) and especially myself as a child, because that person still lives inside me, too.
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
My mom does not exist anymore, and I cannot see my mother in myself. To me, the word "mother" is the synonym for the words "parting" or "separation" or "farewell. "