I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.

Sometimes I pose, but sometimes I pose as posing.

Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.

With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.

The greatest test of life is obedience to God.

The more we express our gratitude to God for our blessings, the more he will bring to our mind other blessings. The more we are aware of to be grateful for, the happier we become.

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

I am called a gold digger all the time. I don't care. There is nothing you can do about what other people say.

I love jeans, T-shirts, boots, and tennis shoes.

There's something called the physiology of forgiveness. Being unable to forgive other people's faults is harmful to one's health.

A lot of sequins for New Year's! Red, green, white - I fail at all of that because I'm always in black. But for Christmas, I do love wearing cute dresses with tights and a pair of boots.

You can't resolve a dilemma with all the very same mind that made it

Nothing feeds the center of being so much as creative work. The curtain of mechanization has come down between the mind and the hand.

I see screenwriting as a bit like a math equation which I have to solve.

I knew that he was as reliable as a mathematical formula.

At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was actually changed by the Civil Rights Movement.

And if a moment exists only in one's perception anyway, then perhaps the rush of feeling he has now is THE MOMENT, and not merely its shadow.

God is ever present. He's in every breath, in every step. He's here, always, always.

I can't permit myself to do things halfway; I never was like that.

I don't see as many movies as I used to. Or, I should say, as many movies as I would like to.

I abhor crime novels in which the main character can behave however he or she pleases, or do things that normal people do not do, without those actions having social consequences.