Image and appearance tell you little. The inside is bigger than the outside when you have the eyes to see.

The soul is healed by being with children. --Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Emotions are the colors of the soul.

Jesus is not the 'founder of Christianity.

The God of Evangelical Christianity is a Monster.

The ability to choose is at the essential core of our grandeur. Even evil exists because God respects our ability to choose.

You are free to love without an agenda

You have to take the time to prepare the soil if you want to embrace the seed.

Submission is not about authority and it is not obedience; it is all about relationships of love and respect.

I think that most creative fiction involves the transformational process, whether it is Dickens or Dostoyevsky and the writer in some sense is expressing their own journey through such a wilderness.

The intricacy and the inherent beautiful fragility of the human soul is such that it is uniquely damaged and only God knows how to heal it, and it's going to take time.

Love with your heart, not with your mind, mind is judgmental, but heart is not.

Obama is the New Generation and the hot light of a dawn that goes way beyond clever talk of morning in America.

A bird in the hand is worth what it will bring.

I love to dress myself. I have a unique style, but I don't try to do that - I just put on whatever I feel good in that day.

Since 2004, Britain has been the destination for 1 in 5 of all inward investments into Europe. And being part of the Single Market has been key to that success.

Is this the life you really want? Or is it just the fantasy of it?

One's conscience reproaches one much more stingingly for one's follies than one's crimes.

Wanting to be accepted is something I like a lot of people can relate to.

No one goes through life thinking that theyre the best friend of the lead character.

With The Nightingale, I had been kicking the idea around for years. I was frightened to write it because on the surface it seems so different for me.