I don’t have cookie-cutter relationships, Rumi. Women aren’t iPhone apps that I download and discard!

Mr. Lisbon had the feeling that he didn't know who she was, that children were only strangers you agreed to live with.

The only kinds of fights worth fighting are those you’re going to lose, because somebody has to fight them and lose and lose and lose until someday, somebody who believes as you do wins.

Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.

When we’ve ceased hearing or changing, we need a new environment.

I hate the computer. I hate their spell-check. I won't ever do e-mail.

Whatever we focus on determines what we become.

You talked about national identity cards and the terrorism bill. We have made a government that has grown used to viewing us as subjects, has grown used to seeing its role as commanding us.

If you're not confident in the authority of the Scriptures, you will be a slave to what sounds right.

Let us reject the spirit of making proselytes to particular creeds by any other means than persuasion.

It was great for me getting a chance to grow up as a normal kid just out of the spotlight, versus all of them growing up in New York. They always had that intense media and spotlight on them.