Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence.

The story itself should force its moral upon you. You find out what the moral is by writing the story.

You can't see anything properly while your eyes are blurred with tears.

Mere improvement is not redemption, though redemption always improves people

A man whose life has been transformed by Christ cannot help but have his worldview show through.

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

He has room for people with very little sense, but He wants everyone to use what sense they have.