Hope, he learned, was sometimes all a person had.

I have often been asked where the inspiration for my books comes from. I wouldn’t know how to answer. On the journey of life, I accumulate experiences that get imprinted in the deepest layers of...

Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.

Do you know, in general, how strong God has made you? How strong and good He has made you?

I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.

The world was so unbearably pretty, and it continued being so all the way down the mountain to school. I felt slightly high because of the beauty, and the inside of my head tickled. I wondered if this...

It seemed certain now that small could defeat big. All it took was brains and skills and heart and a perfect plan.

No, and the sun will not rise today, Master Holbytla. Nor ever again, one would think under this cloud. But time does not stand still, though the Sun be lost. Make haste!

For a while the hobbits continued to talk and think of the past journey and of the perils that lay ahead; but such was the virtue of the land of Rivendell that soon all fear and anxiety was lifted...

There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land,...

Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us.

Sometimes you don't need lightning to start a fire. Sometimes, it builds on its own.

If I do anything, I have to start over, but all I have is fragments of ideas. Just pieces. Like a germ of an idea for this, and a germ of an idea for that. Nothing whole or concrete - Violet 'Growth...

It takes curiosity to find your call to adventure, it takes courage to venture into the unknown, and it takes imagination to create your path.

We can become inspired to shape a higher, more ideal future, and when we do, miracles happen.

Mad Hatter: Am I going mad?Alice: Yes, you're mad, bonkers, off the top of your head...but...I'll tell you a secret.All the best people are.

Faith is not about finding meaning in the world, there may be no such thing -- faith is the belief in our capacity to create meaningful lives.

I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand

If I can give one bit of advice to any drama major, high school theater kid, or inmate who is reading this in a prison library with dreams of being cast in he prison play, its this: write your own...

Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, tuned the English tongue.

She felt like she'd slipped into another world. For the first time someone knew exactly what the hurt felt like.

Stand at the top of a cliff and jump off and build your wings on the way down.

The affair made men feel larger than life.

What other country has had the privilege of making the world's heart beat faster?

Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.

A bird is like an instrument working according to mathematical law, and it is in the capacity of man to reproduce such an instrument, Leonardo da Vinci

As much as Henry Kissinger wanted to attribute historical movement to impersonal forces, he too conceded to "the difference personalities make".

In neighborhoods like the oneI grew up in, places that are poor in proxy but rich in rhetoric, the hollies have a saying - I'd rather be judged by twelve than carried by six.

​A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace. Elisabeth Elliot

Books inspire a man to embrace the world or flee it. They start wars and end them. They make the men and women who write and publish them vast fortunes, and nearly as quickly can drive them into...