I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration.

The soul is healed by being with children. --Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Emotions are the colors of the soul.

Jesus is not the 'founder of Christianity.

The God of Evangelical Christianity is a Monster.

The ability to choose is at the essential core of our grandeur. Even evil exists because God respects our ability to choose.

You are free to love without an agenda

You have to take the time to prepare the soil if you want to embrace the seed.

Submission is not about authority and it is not obedience; it is all about relationships of love and respect.

I think that most creative fiction involves the transformational process, whether it is Dickens or Dostoyevsky and the writer in some sense is expressing their own journey through such a wilderness.

The intricacy and the inherent beautiful fragility of the human soul is such that it is uniquely damaged and only God knows how to heal it, and it's going to take time.

The best people always care their goodness, civility, courtesy, and fairness. But not the bad.

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Nevertheless, one learned very early that books had to be respected; they were all putative Bibles and to some small degree had a share in holiness.

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.

An America where every person, no matter their race, their disability or their sexual orientation realizes the full promise of equality that is our birthright as Americans.

Don’t try to be an artist. Find the thing within you that needs to be expressed. You might find it is art.

A Kerry footballer with an inferiority complex is one who thinks he's just as good as everybody else.

I did my first movie,a movie called Whiffs, which very few people ever saw.

Love all. Serve all. Help ever. Hurt never.