Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different.

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.

When a lady is ready to marry, she has to wait for a man to come for her.When a man is ready to marry, he just has to make his choice

The winds have a force so terrific as to eclipse anything previously known in the world. We have found the kingdom of blizzards. We have come to an accursed land.

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths but usually quarrel among themselves.

Time is a part of eternity and of the same piece with it.

Why would you want to do anything else but rescue a pet?

I spend my time backstage at the Lanvin shows, and when I come out at the end, all I see are people's eyes.

The quicksilver of creativity will not be solidified by legal pronouncement; it will necessarily flow into new and sometimes frightening fields.

I campaigned for Hillary Clinton when she was in the primaries against [Barack] Obama, actually.

Our world is a college, events are teachers, happiness is the graduating point, character is the diploma God gives man.

What fates impose, that men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide.