If anyone was ever cognizant of the need and function of 'litanies', it was Kafka.

I am much more afraid of my good deeds that please me than of my bad deeds that repel me.

Look, whatever you do in life, remember, think higher and feel deeper. It cannot be bad if you do that.

Dawn is purely a work of fiction, but I wrote it to look at myself in a new way. Obviously I did not live this tale, but I was implicated in its ethical dilemma from the moment that I assumed my character's place.

I took it for granted that there must be a few men left in the world who had that kind of strength. I assumed that those men would also be looking for women with principle. I did not want to be among the marked-down goods on the bargain table, cheap because they'd been pawed over. Crowds collect there. It is only the few who will pay full price. You get what you pay for.

The spirit is liquid and easily flows and surges, sinking and boiling with the currents of circumstances. Bringing every thought into the obedience of Christ is no easy-chair job.

The failure to cultivate the power of peaceful concentration is the greatest single cause of mental breakdown, the great physician William Osler told the students of Yale.

If you want to live a godly life, then choose to put the things into your mind that lead to living a godly life.

Our actions, habits, character, and future are most definitely affected by our thoughts.

Little choices determine habit; Habit carves and molds character Which makes the big decisions.

Whatsoever things are true...think on these things.

The main things are the plain things, and the plain things are the main things.