Ask yourself what you will care about when everything is on the line.

2. Overcommitment and time pressure are the greatest destroyers of marriages. It takes time to develop any friendship...whether with a loved one or with God Himself.

Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life.

Until we know who we are and why we are here, no amount of success, fame, money, or pleasure will provide much satisfaction.

Diversity, rather than cohesiveness, is the new passion, and it pits us against each other for “rights.

29. Most loneliness results from insulation rather than isolation. In other words, we are lonely because we insulate ourselves, not because others isolate us.

38. “A wet bird never flies at night.” (My grandfather said that to me when I was a child and warned me not to forget it. I remember his words but never did figure out what he meant!)

10. Comparison is the root of all feelings of inferiority. The moment you begin examining other people’s strengths against your most obvious weaknesses, your self-esteem starts to crumble!

28. Feelings are neither right nor wrong. It's what you do with them that causes the problems.

Your most precious memories will focus on those you loved, those who loved you, and what you did together in the service of the Lord.

Highs must be followed by lows.

To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune but to write and read comes by nature.

Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.

Everyone messes up in relationships and has peaks and valleys in their personal lives. When I realized it wasn't the end of the world and I would keep on standing, I knew it was going to be OK.

The Kremlin is constantly changing the rules of the game to suit its purposes. We are not playing chess, we're playing roulette.

Humanity needs this technology as much as it needs all other technologies that have now connected us and set before us the terrifying and wondrous possibility of actually becoming one human race.

We cannot be liberated as women in a society built on class oppression or gender oppression or religious oppression.

I mean, gosh, my first tours I ever did were with the Ramones and Iggy Pop and Love & Rockets.

I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.

The conversion of agnostic High Tories to the Anglican church is always rather suspect. It seems too pat and predictable, too clearly a matter of politics rather than faith.

She's half mad and three parts drunk.