A handicapped person is a human being with the same heart as anyone else. It's not a misfortune if you can't hear-it's just an inconvenience.

People shouldn't dwell on the past. It's enough to try your best in all that you're doing now.

I understood that menstruation - the indication that you're a real woman - stopped if you grew weak from illness

I put my hand on my chest. I can feel my heart beating. My heart is working. I'm pleased. I'm still alive.

I want to be like the air. The good-hearted person whose kindness overflows and people realize how important she was to them, once she is gone. I want to be that kind of person.

If you look up at the sky after falling down the blue sky is also today stretching limitlessly and smiles at me... I'm alive.

I really don't want to say things such as 'I want to go back as how things were before.' I recognize how I am right now, and I will continue to live on.

Death is not fearful. What's fearful is giving up.

Just being alive is such a lovely and wonderful thing.

As I think about the future the tears will come out again.

But I'm a patient, so I have to focus on recuperation

[The Rule:] Just do the next thing you're reasonably certain Jesus wants you to do.

An idea without action is like a song without vocal.

The main characteristic which is the proof of the indwelling Spirit is an amazing tenderness in personal dealing, and a blazing truthfulness with regard to God’s Word.

I admire Eudora Welty. 'Delta Wedding' is a book I've given as a present to numerous women. Eudora Welty rocks. She writes such jewel-like, fine, refined short stories.

I think George Mitchell was good for Maryland in the sense that he helped me get elected. It doesn't get any better than that from here on.

Suddenly Saracen Rue looked old and tired, and Skulduggery Pleasant came into focus as what he really was – a genius, a killer, a tortured soul, and the only true dead man among them.

I don't know why it should be, I am sure; but the sight of another man asleep in bed when I am up, maddens me.

In the end I would always pull up with a sense of glory, that loving is the strong side. It's feeble to be an object. What's the point of being loved in return, I'd ask myself.

If youre not concerned about maintaining an image, you can pursue roads that another actor might not take.

Don't hang onto anything too tightly-all things must change and you have to allow room for them to grow and blossom.