Modesty is related to diffidence, diffidence is related to shyness, Shyness is a synonym for timidity, timidity is a characteristic of the meek, the meek do not inherit the Earth, they serve those who are self confident and self assertive.

Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement.

In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths.

You won't find the truth of life in morbidity, only in hope.

The opportunity to love a dog and to treat it with kindness is an opportunity for a lost and selfish heart to be redeemed. They are powerless and innocent, and it is how we treat the humblest among us that surely determines the fate of our souls

To many people, free will is a license to rebel not against what is unjust or hard in life but against what is best for them and true.

Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.