I think I was always going to be an Everton player from the day I was born. There is a certain type of player who is an Everton player

Why anyone would want to leave Everton is beyond me anyway. Even for Manchester United, Chelsea or anyone. This is the place to be.

The unhappiest people in this world, are those who care the most about what other people think.

Oh why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a fast-flitting meteor a fast-flying cloud A flash of the lightning a break of the wave He passes from life to his rest in the grave.

First doubt your doubts before you doubt your faith. We must never allow doubt to hold us prisoner and keep us from the divine love, peace, and gifts that come through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

To want what I have, to take what I'm given with grace. For this I pray.

Even if I know that really it's not a great song, even if it's a naff song but I have a good memory of it, then to me that's a great song.

I've always wanted to be a mom.

Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act.

If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I will write it in a book for children.

To distance ourselves from our experience makes our feelings a liability, while staying in conversation with our experience makes our feelings a resource.

Care not for time and success. Act out thy part, whether it be to fail or to prosper.