It is so easy to get sucked into the if-only game, and playing it is a short and slippery slide into despair.

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.

Life really could be an enjoyable experience, if we only knew what it demands of us.

Help more than is needed.Care more than is required.Give more than is expected.Love more than is anticipated.

An insecure person will attempt to make you think that your strengths are weaknesses so that you can also feel insecure.

I don't care what the political establishment says, Republican, Democrat - I'm a problem solver.

I think you have to be very careful with effects that they don't overpower the story with the visual element.

Take what you can use and let the rest go by.

Lust comes creeping through the night to feed on hearts of suburban wives who learned to pretend when they met their dreams end.

I think everyone should live in New York City if they ever get the chance at least once in their life. It's such a great place to live; there's a different energy about living in the city.

Your earthly lover can be charming and coquettish but never very faithful. The true lover is the one who on your final day opens a thousand doors.

Being selective-doing less-is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest.