I think for a woman, the hardest thing about growing old is becoming invisible. There's something very front and center about being young.

The more time you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.

Do I think all contemporary Christian music is good? No.

But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion.

Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.

If I had my life to live over again, I'd run barefoot, relax a bit more, I'd talk more to children, and I'd learn how they laugh.

Get outside. Watch the sunrise. Watch the sunset. How does that make you feel? Does it make you feel big or tiny? Because there's something good about feeling both.

More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.

Anybody who's ever gone through a hard time - any outsider's perception, no matter how much information they're given, they have no idea what the person's life is like.

I can look at the future with anticipation. And it's comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we'll be able to look back and have a little more clarity on why certain things in life happened.

I feel a part of the congregation. I've never had to do special music. The kids sing in the choir. It's just normal. We're treated like everybody else.

Kindness is not a business. True kindness expects nothing in return and should never act with conditions.

Never interrupt someone who is reading because they’re no longer in your world.

I write fiction""What’s fiction?""Fiction is an improvement on life.

I was to discover that the quest for human understanding is a lifetime one that has no end in sight.

It's been said before: 'The sleep of reason produces monsters.

I love America, and I love to say that my family is American.

Yeah, when you're making a film, the book is a good tool, but once you have the script and you're making a movie, you have to let go of the book.

I am what I am and cannot be otherwise because of the shadows.

I’m always interested in films that are about extreme subject matters.

You reason like the king, who, being sent across the frontier, called out, 'What will become of my poor subjects without me?'