Few things are as painful as the unfulfilled desire to be near to another you love.

....I came to consider betrayal a moral violation of another's humanity—akin to torture.

Not success. Not growth. Not happiness. The cradle of your love of life … is death.

Where there is insistence, there is worldly life.

I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting.

All who have walked with God have viewed prayer as the main business of their lives.

Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.

Science cuts two ways, of course; its products can be used for both good and evil. But there's no turning back from science. The early warnings about technological dangers also come from science.

The divine is everywhere, even in a grain of sand; there I represented it in the reeds.

In loss itself I find assuagement: having lost the treasure, I've nothing to fear.

You can only whine for so long. Then you need to get your life back.

I really got into 'The Walking Dead.' That was genius. And I have to say, my husband is on 'Shameless,' and I think it's a brilliant show.