God loves me just as I am today. He knows all my junk....and lack of faith, and he loves me anyway. However, he loves me too much to leave me the way I am.

I think the challenge is to takedifficult and painful times and turn them into something beneficial, something that makes you grow.

It's the struggle that makes you triumphant.

We're part of each other's lives. We're in each other's stories.

Soccer isn't brain surgery, have fun.

Allow yourself the Freedom to Fail before you see Success Sail!-RVM

I am exploring the beautiful world.

I'm not sad about any of my life. It's so unconventional. It doesn't look anything like I thought it would.

I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around with until you got a novel.

The heart of Christ can be seen through the openings of his wounds. For what can prove to me so clearly as your wounds that you, O Lord Jesus, are sweet & mild & plenteous in mercy.

After The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal, the audience would like to know where, when, and who arrests Hannibal Lecter for the first time. This is the story of Red Dragon.

When you are getting on in years (but not ill, of course), you get very sleepy at times, and the hours seem to pass like lazy cattle moving across a landscape.

It made me strong.I took a step back, near my whole self in the mirror.I pushed back my shoulders and raised my chin, my back straight as an arrow.

My music is a very personal reflection of me, whereas, acting a role, thats a reflection of another character.

For months I've been working on creating techniques to reproduce Swarovski crystals in sugar using the real stones to guide me.