Instead of being proud that you led someone to God, be more concerned with the person you pushed away from Him.

Truth and integrity must be so rare these days that it confuses people when they hear it.

There is the purity of love, harmonious in every way, but not meant for a lifetime, and then there is the steady love of commitment - no less real but completely different. She had both.

Darling, if I take your breath away, I will give you mine.

We love because we can lose. If there was no threat of separation, no death to shake us to our core, we probably wouldn't love much at all.

Connecting with someone is not necessarily a bond with a significant other, or even a friend, but can be the indefinable - perhaps the rarest and most precious thing in life to find at all.

Even "meant to be" takes work.

I'd rather be befriended as an aimless lost soul than be befriended for adornment, gain or goal.

Am I a friend or a prospect? Imagine how much kinder life would be if people put as much effort into befriending others instead of trying to sell them something.

Where are the memories that held us together? Where are the dreams that were yet to come? I'm afraid to be happy. I shouldn't be happy. If I'm happy without you does that mean I've told you goodbye?

One of the disadvantages to having a choice is the inevitability to hang oneself on freedoms rope.

I do wish, " said Lucy, "now that we're not thirsty, we could go on feeling as not-hungry as we did when we were thirsty.

I am tremendously moved anytime anyone gives birth to something from deep within themselves that is pure and authentic.

I might say that in retrospect, looking at where the community college system is today, I think we may have gone too far. The community college system is so big, so broad, so consuming of tax money.

Actually 'Soon' has more than the Left Behind series, but I really believe less is more.

Happiness is more about removing the blocks to Love and remembering who you are than changing your situation or another person.

Carrying a grudge is difficult work that brings nothing of value. Forgive, and be free.

When we help ourselves, we find moments of happiness. When we help others, we find lasting fulfillment.

You see, this universe we inhabit is made up of billions of galaxies literally beyond counting and this is only one universe.

In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.

If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be open to any man who can persuasively promise security to all.