If the abortion issue is important to me, this is how you tackle that issue.

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.

I have sometimes wondered if the greatest desire of man is to be known and loved anyway.

And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it.

What I believe is not what I say I believe; what I believe is what I do.

You can't tell a good story without conflict - the story can't be beautiful or meaningful. We're taught to run from conflict, and it's robbing us of some really good stories.

If we knew how much God loved us and was for us, we’d talk to Him all day long.

How disappointing would it be get to heaven and find out God created life to be enjoyed while all we did was worry?

There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing.

I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me

People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen.

Man is smart - If money would have grown on trees, we would have used green leaves as money.

I assumed that looking back reminded older guys of what they had shot at and missed, the what-ifs, the good memories, the bad, the people left behind, the people who moved on.

Our countries have been friends dating to the very existence of the United States. France is the only power that has never been at war with the United States.

I just do my act. If people in England don't get my joke I make fun of myself for telling it.

Sisterhood is magical and medicinal - use it as a lifelong resource.

Ain't no glory made from being dependable.

I've done a lot of Samurai film in Japan, and sometimes done the choreography by myself.

This is plainly to ascribe divinity to 'free will.'

I ask the reader to remember that what is most obvious may be most worthy of analysis. Fertile vistas may open out when commonplace facts are examined from a fresh point of view.

The Seven Factors of Awakening are mindfulness, investigation of phenomena, diligence, joy, ease, concentration, and letting go.