"Every time you defeat a temptation, you become more like Jesus!"

“To complete a work is just like being present at the death of someone you love.”

Source : "The Life of the Creative Spirit". Book by H. Charles Romesburg (pp. 239-240), 2001.

“A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.”

“Readers take in dialogue one thought at a time. A frequent mistake of beginners is to combine thoughts, which may be suitable for other forms of writing but not for dialogue. Another mistake is speechifying. Three sentences at a time is tops, yet many beginners write speeches that go on and on.”

“You can tell someone who doesn't have love in their life, then someone who is in love.”

“At the breakfast table we are footnoting everything that we read. We don't recognise it as such but we encounter an article in the newspaper and then suddenly we recall that a friend had a certain comment on that particular story, a certain bit of news that we saw on the television applies to that and we immediately assemble an idea of a story.”

“[The canonization of the Koran involved the] attribution of several, partially overlapping, collections of logia [sayings] (exhibiting a distinctly Mosaic imprint) to the image of a Biblical prophet (modified by the material of the Muhammadan evangelium into an Arabian man of God) with a traditional message of salvation (modified by the influence of Rabbinic Judaism into the unmediated and finally immutable word of God).”

“I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.”

Source : My Little Chickadee (motion picture) (1940) See Balzac 1; Clementina Graham 1; Wilde 25; Wilde 53

“If you're too big to serve. You're too small to lead.”