I learned that the purpose of the Twelve Steps is to do the will of God.

The way to love someone is to lightly run your finger over that person's soul until you find a crack, and then gently pour your love into that crack.

I'll tell you what pressure is. Pressure is a Messerschmitt up your arse. Playing cricket is not.

The primary symptom of a controller is denial, that is I can't see its symptoms in myself.

I am deeply a part of the problem for which Christ died.

But keep characters in propinquity long enough and a story will always develop a plot.

I have learned to like myself for the first time and to have some serenity.

Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.

I wrote a book called The Taste of New Wine because I couldn't find a book that talked about the reality of the situation and how we were dishonest and afraid.

I am discovering that in trying to find God's will and the shape of the Christian life I have begun an adventure so great that its total completion will always be ahead.

I grew up and I became very successful at what I did as a young man. I became a work addict because this was the only way I could get any relief from this pain.

The prisoners of the cultures are mostly the women! House is the name of the prison!

God created you not as an ordinary personality, but eminent, peculiar, and with a special assignment

I wish I could say that when I didn't agree with a director I defer to him, but I think sometimes I'm a little self-righteous.

None of Your Business.' It's the only Salt-N-Pepa song that I regret.

I look to challenge myself with a character that's not like myself or anything I've done before, but I certainly don't reject roles based on how often I've done them.

I doubt if we nuns are really as self-sacrificing as we must seem to be to you who live in the world. We don't give everything for nothing, you know. The mystery plays fair.

Classic author moment, "Oh dear, did I kill that character or not?

Poetry and I fit together. I can't imagine being without it... It is food and drink, it is all seasons, it is the stuff of all existence.

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.

A lot of the women I know, that's what they're complaining about either the man in their life or the lack of a man in their life.