Norman Vincent Peale

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.

Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.

I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died.

Although I write to entertain, and try to keep my work free of didacticism, I do have a rather passionate belief in our need to be connected to - and to learn from - history.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.