Writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity.
Sweet wine makes drunk, sour wine (insult) is "tetelestai". Life is not about what we have done and become, but how God to be fully glorified.
How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?
Hide yourself in God, so when a man wants to find you he will have to go there first.
The missing link between humans and apes? It's certainly those brutes who haven't yet learned to respect privacy.
Be your best proponent, ally, and advocate.
If you do not cultivate your life's environment, you will not captivate the worlds enlightenment.
Four minutes of eye contact brings people closer to each other better than everything else.
If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.
Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.
Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.