The secret of passion is purpose.

When you've got 10,000 people trying to do the same thing, why would you want to be number 10,001?

God has prepared a path for everyone to follow.

Our spiritual life cannot be measured by success as the world measures it, but only by what God pours through us- and we cannot measure that at all

To find his place and fill it is success for a man.

You know who you are. And I suggest you never deny it.

She truly believed that she carried her own fate in the palm of her hand, as if destiny was nothing more than a green marble or a robin's egg, a trinket any silly girl could scoop up and keep. She believed that all you wanted, you would eventually receive, and that fate was a force which worked with you, not against you.

Do people choose the art that inspires them — do they think it over, decide they might prefer the fabulous to the real? For me, it was those early readings of fairy tales that made me who I was as a reader and, later on, as a storyteller.

You're like the weird fucked-up sister of yourself, Shelby. Whereas I'm just an extension of my loser self that anyone could have foreseen. I have followed the path set out before me. You veered.

We make our own fate. And then all at once she realized they did. They could not control it, but they could choose how to respond to what happened.

you repudiate who you are. Once you do that, life works against you, and your fate is no longer your own.

Fate is what you make it, or you will be what it makes of you.