I don't care what problem you face; it has no power to defeat the cross of Christ.

The best way to be a good father to your children is to be a good husband to their mother.

Evil is powerful, but good is more powerful. In fact, evil is so powerful that only good has the power to overcome evil. Darkness can be driven away only by light.

what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

I made a gift for you, Good Proctor. I had to sit long hours in a chair, and passed the time with sewing." - Mary Warren

A kindergarten teacher is a woman who knows how to make little things count.

Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast.

My mom is very Southern and she in real life says things like, 'If you've got it, flaunt it.'

Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.

I always prefer things straight up, not cold or watered down. Not big on cocktails either.

I would like to hook up with one of the great Japanese filmmakers, like the master that made Ringu, and I would like to take 'The Wicker Man' to Japan, except this time he's a ghost.

It's not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.

Satin and lace and brown velvet and the faint odor of violets. That was all which was left to him of his love.