I love everything about the Christmas season.

A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.

Stay strong! Your test will become your test-imony, your mess will become your mess-age.

Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day.

Be patient. God is using today's difficulties to strengthen you for tomorrow. He is equipping you. The God who makes things grow will help you bear fruit.

Next time a sunrise steals your breath or a meadow of flowers leave you speechless, remain that way. Say nothing, and listen as Heaven whispers, "Do you like it? I did it just for you."

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realising you were the prisoner!

Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.

Our prayers may be awkward. Our attempts may be feeble. But since the power of prayer is in the One who hears it and not in the one who says it, our prayers do make a difference.

If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

That which does not destroy, strengthens.

I still do not understand how a corporation can have person-hood if it has no soul and never dies.

Your parents ask you to follow the standard path: School, job, security. Is this really the best way? I don't think so - be your own boss!

Red Dawn was really the most fun I ever had making a movie, because I love Westerns, and I love the idea of being a tomboy, and riding horses and shooting guns.

This then is the first duty of an educator: to stir up life but leave it free to develop.

I think you put art out into the world, and sometimes it's divisive, sometimes it's embraced. Sometimes people cry, laugh or have complicated reactions.

Love is irrational, I reminded myself. The more you loved someone, the less sense anything made.

Writing isn't about the destination-writing is the journey that transforms the soul and gives meaning to all else.