It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.

Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong; I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong where I think I'm right

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.

A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.

Art sometimes imitates life. When it does, science fiction presages what form that life may take.

Why can't we repeat 8th grace five times and call that a high school education?

Life is a celebration. Free your mind to find the liberation.

I once choked on a chip at a friend's birthday when I was seven and had to be sent home, as I'd broken my collarbone coughing.

Sometimes you have to search for inspiration with characters, and other times, they just drop out of the sky and arrive.

I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.

I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.

Christianity is within a man, even as he is gifted with reason; it is associated with your mother's chair, and with the first remembered, tones of her blessed voice.

When a baseball player makes an error, it goes into the record and is published. How many of us could stand this sort of daily scrutiny?

I have prevented my kids from watching MTV at home. It's not safe for kids.