“Write me of hope and love, and hearts that endured.”

“More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.”

“The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.”

“Love changes things; hope allows us to endure until the change arrives.”

“There is nothing love cannot face; there is no limit to its faith, its hope, and its endurance.”

“Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.”