And I guess when you take away the resentment and disappointment, it's that simple. It is what we do in families: we help, because we were helped.

The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.

...most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you.

The depth of the feeling continued to surprise and threaten me, but each time it hit again and I bore it...I would discover that it hadn't washed me away.

Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There was no sense of performance or judgment, only that the music was breath and food.

Mine was a patchwork God, sewn together from bits of rag and ribbon, Eastern and Western, pagan and Hebrew, everything but the kitchen sink and Jesus.

The clipping said forgiveness meant that God is for giving, and that we are here for giving too, and that to withold love or blessings is to be completely delusional.

I tell you, families are definitely the training ground for forgiveness.

I'll live as well, as deeply, as madly as I can--until I die.

I watched him carefully. He was making art because he has to, and because he's brave enough to try and make contact, right there on the edge of madness, where he dreams.

Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.

Dream until you can no longer tell the difference between your dreams and reality.

Lochsong - she's like Linford Christie ... without the lunchbox.

Of course I'm going to marry, but I don't know when.

Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.

Sometimes you have to give credit to the other guy pitching.

It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Using insult instead of argument is the sign of a small mind.

Everything gets better with time, and time is forever.

Believe that none of the effort you put into coming closer to God is ever wasted - even if in the end you don't achieve what you are striving for.

What was good was that I had friends who were actors and in theatre who were really good, because I think my strengths were visual, like pictorial.