“Let your words be your voice. And let your voice be heard within the hearts of others.”

“Let them hear your voice so rarely that a simply-uttered word creates a hush of expectancy in the room.”

“Keep listening for that still small voice if you are weary on life's road; the Lord will make your heart rejoice if you will let him take your load." —Hess”

“When you pray, rather let your heart be without words then your words without heart. ”

“Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice."[Stanford University commencement speech, 2005]”

“You better [start writing] now because you know how to write, and you have fingers, and you have this one life, and during this one life, you should put your words down, and make your voice heard, and then let others hear your voice. And the only way any of that’s going to happen is if you actually do it. People can’t read the thoughts in your head. They can only read the thoughts you put down, carefully and with great love, on the page.So you have to do it, goddamnit.”