I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me

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.

People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen.

All the trees are losing their leaves, and not one of them is worried.

You musn't talk of a young lady *belonging* to anybody, as if she was a piece of furniture, or money in the Three per Cent, or something of that sort.

Then I feel so happy and at the same time so sad, it's unimaginable.

We know that social exclusion is closely tied to the new economic world order, globalized, with free and open markets, which isn't bringing prosperity or social justice to all.

No one in the world can take the place of your mother. Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are always right. She may scold you for little things, but never for the big ones.

The indictment, in a lot of ways, that was the turning point.

Dynasty was the opportunity to take charge of my career rather than waiting around like a library book waiting to be loaned out.

The trick is, when you grow up, find work that feels like play.

Consciousness ... is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known.

It's very weird because the 'It' guy usually is not the 'It' guy next year or even a guy that anyone is talking about.

More like the movie where the guy meets a smart girl who wears a lot of sweaters and drinks cocoa. They talk about books and issues and kiss in the rain.