God exalts the man who humbles himself.
Nothing is more terrifying than fearlessness.
It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place
You know a great many things in dreams, often despite the evidence of your eyes. You just know them.
Stories never really end. . . even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.
Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said. . . "As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells. . . and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower. . . both strange and familiar.
Fire and water," he said, "don't really mix. You could say they're incompatible. But when they do love each other, they love passionately.
The truest self-respect is not to think of self.
Don’t be cool. Cool is conservative fear dressed in black.
States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking.
Prayer begets Revival, which begets more prayer.