I asked myself if I was genuinely happy and realized I had to change if I wanted to be able to do things with my kids, get rid of the pains in my hips and knees, and stop being judged.

Everyone says surgery is the easy way out, but going under the knife is never the easy way out. You don't know if you're going to come back out of it and whether there will be complications.

Don't fear the unexpecred or you'll be locked in time.

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

There are no right of wrong answers in goal setting. What works for you?

In English we blame others for not understanding us when really it's our fault for not saying what we wanted to say.

People talk of the new economy and of reinventing themselves in the workplace, and in that sense most of us are less secure.

I've been talking about retiring for years. It's my standard answer to the question, 'What are your future plans?' The truth is, I'll always want to do things that are worthwhile or fun.

If you're not in Germany, you're not in Europe. And if you're not in Asia, you're nowhere.

The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.

There have not been children of comparable youth in the White House since the Kennedy era.

I went to India as a missionary to save England from spiritual collapse.