I've always looked on criticism as a sort of envious tribute.

For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.

And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.

To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.

The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.

You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

Whoever fear God, shun sin.

Lord grant me a humble spirit and a willing heart.

May my weakness not drive me to my knees in despair, but raise me up to You, Lord.

True prayer is the trading of the heart with God.

I take goldenseal, Echinacea and cod liver oil when flying to boost my immune system.

the real stakes in the theater are high - they are life stakes. That's what I love about it. You gamble with your life, and that's a gamble worth taking.

Backup singers just bring so much more life to the situation. When a voice opens up, there comes the life.That's when it's a person-to-person connection.

The reformer has enemies in all who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order.

The Lord supplies our needs, but not our selfishness

Writing's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.