By accepting God's love for us, we fall in love with Him, and only then do we have the fuel we need to obey.

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.

I have sometimes wondered if the greatest desire of man is to be known and loved anyway.

And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it.

What I believe is not what I say I believe; what I believe is what I do.

You can't tell a good story without conflict - the story can't be beautiful or meaningful. We're taught to run from conflict, and it's robbing us of some really good stories.

If we knew how much God loved us and was for us, we’d talk to Him all day long.

How disappointing would it be get to heaven and find out God created life to be enjoyed while all we did was worry?

There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing.

I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me

People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen.

Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it's realistic or not.

For those who die with honor, the touch of death is simply the unlocking of a door between this life and the next.

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.

I'm sure that the camera is part of European art.

Wouldst thou be famed? have those high acts in view, Brave men would act though scandal would ensue.

No matter what you do, your job is to tell your story.

Being Henry Fonda's daughter got me started. But it didn't keep me working.

Stay away from philosophy, kids: it will ruin your mind.

My stepfather stepped in where no man would've stepped in - six kids, five of them boys - and that's heroic.