“No man or woman is uniformly successful… we must all expect a rather high percentage of failure in the things we attempt.”

At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can’t tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me.

The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.

To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?

Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.

Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.

I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.

Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.

I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I’m inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.

Many people are being persuaded that they cannot be considered intelligent or well educated if they insist on the doctrine of the verbal inspiration of the Book.

I think what gets you through a small writing project, is just one burst of inspiration.