I love being busy.

I don’t mind people hating me, because it pushes me.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can’t find.

We all have a tendency to avoid our weaknesses. When we do that, we never progress or get any better.

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

I’m very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories.

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.

Always do whatever’s next.

When you start to realise how much of what you’ve constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.

Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.

Through my films I’m eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don’t know if I’m ever going to get there, but I’m slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I’m 85, I’ll look back and say, ‚All right, that about sums it up.‘

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

There’s only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day’s work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.

Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

Real life is the life that’s in you, not your circumstances, like where you live or what job you have or who you’re in relationship with.

I think the best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I’ve got Alzheimer’s.

People who don’t know the true character of God – who don’t believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger – can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.

Fear is exciting for me.

I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It’s a way of life for me.

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

On the ‚Star,‘ you were forced to learn to write a simple declarative sentence. This is useful to anyone. Newspaper work will not harm a young writer and could help him if he gets out of it in time.

I have a little bit of that gamer spirit in me. I just don’t have the time to be a gamer. But in another life, I would be one.

I change my mind a lot. I usually don’t agree with what I say very much. I’m an awful liar.

Single life is so overrated.

I don’t have the best track record with quotes.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

That’s one of the biggest things. Never being home, always traveling, having different interests and focusing on different things, just the time aspect of going back home and seeing them, you don’t have that at all. It was a big sacrifice but, at the end of the day, it was worth it.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Solitude is independence.

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

I think it’s a very good thing to leave your country and look at it from afar.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

You can’t go backward in life.

Stay active. Read the Word. Worship with other believers. Continue to give. Keep learning and growing. Your faith will be unleashed!

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

I try to teach my heart not to want things it can’t have.

I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

I fear that too many have sadly surrendered their agency to the adversary and are saying by their conduct, ‚I care more about satisfying my own desires than I do about bearing the Savior’s power to bless others.‘

I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can’t stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.

My life is my message.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

I had never been in charge of anything. I’d always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I’d never been in charge of an organization.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

I’m not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It’s really not my place.

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.