Here, in memory, we live and die.

I don't write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know.

People come and go in life, but they never leave your dreams. Once they're in your subconscious, they are immortal.

Prayer as focus is not a way of limiting what can be seen; it is a habit of attention brought to bear on all that is.

We only store in memory images of value. To write about one's life is to live it twice, and the second time is both spiritual and historical.

Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste.

Memory is, first, a captivating mystery.

Fundamentally, [prayer] is a position, a placement of oneself.

No memoirists writes for long without experiencing an unsettling disbelief about the reliability of memory, a hunch that memory is not, after all, just memory.

True memoir is written, like all literature, in an attempt to find not only a self but a world

Writing is so hard. And then, sometimes, it is so bewilderingly easy.

The false starts and futilities of the past years proved themselves to be groundwork, foundations, laid in the dark but well laid.

Forgiveness is not an emotion, it's a decision.

Bible study without Bible experience is pointless.

The high point of your life was when you knocked me down

I don't make films to win prizes. I make films to make films.

I truly believe that the individual who learns to practice thanksgiving activates within himself and around himself continuous victories and blessings from God.

The product Disney created actually changed a life, and that was significant to them. They didn't stand in my way at all.

The world is an excellent judge in general, but a very bad one in particular.

I think there are worse things for a teen to be enraptured with than 'Twilight.

When death becomes the property of the believer it receives a new name and is called sleep.