“Know yourself. Be authentic. Have courage.”

“Reality is only as true as it is perceived. Reality does not change. How it is perceived does.”

“The questions you don't ask are just as important as you do. The questions you ask show what you understand, and ones you don't show what you know.”

“There is no better satisfaction than to see your children make your dreams theirs, and achieve them on their terms.”

“The energy of youth with the experience of age is a lethal combination.”

“Live in the present. It won't last too long.”

“Only super-efforts count.”

“I want to be in a relationship where you telling me you love me is just a ceremonious validation of what you already show me.”

“That is what a well-guarded prayer life can reveal about us, that our trust is not in ourselves but in seeking God's strength for what we do. Prayer is not a substitute for action, but prayer under...”

“All words are pegs to hang ideas on.”

“A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.”

“No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake....”