“Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves. ”

“A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading”

“In His wisdom, our God formed us out of the dirt. In His empathy, He spent a life walking through our dirt. In His grace, He let His sacrificial blood fall to the dirt. Then in His love, he picks us up from that dirt.”

“We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.”

“There is a very great difference — is there not? — between the temporal and the eternal judgments, a very great difference between a man's reputation and a man's character, for reputation is what men think and say of us, while character is what God and the angels know of us.”

“What screws us up the most in life is the picture in our head of what it's supposed to be.”

“All power is from within and therefore under our control”