It seems we need someone to know us as we are - with all we have done - and forgive us. We need to tell. We need to be whole in someone's sight: Know this about me, and yet love me. Please.

Kids need to see that Jesus is the best thing that ever happened to us. And they need to know it can happen to them.

There is something truly restorative, finally comforting, in coming to the end of an illusion - a false hope.

I felt the kind of desperation, I think, that cancels the possibility of empathy...that makes you unkind.

...the words make our silences easier--they're the current that runs under them.

But even then I knew how it was going to be, I could feel the coming silence in the long, poisonous pauses that expanded as the night progressed.

The abundance of ordinary things, their convenient arrangement here, seemed for the moment a personal gift to me. As did my ability to notice this, to be grateful for it.

A secret weighs on us, a terrible secret weighs with a terrible weight.

The best lessons of life are learnt in silence and solitude.

The distance between an honest Christian mystic and a fortune-teller is sometimes less than half a whisper. Less than a pot of tea or the space between two book covers.

So they left the subject and played croquet, which is a very good game for people who are annoyed with one another, giving many opportunities for venting rancor.

At their core, when things really matter, people see a need to turn to God for strength and protection.

To fear to face an issue is to believe that the worst is true.

Vintage was brilliant!

I'm an egotistical actress, the shows I like are the ones where I have lots to do. The one where I got shot I - it was particularly memorable for me for a lot of reasons.

When I do my shows, it's really cross-generational. Sometimes there's three generations there.

You read glowing things and it doesn't feel deserved. You read things that are critical and it cuts you to the bone.

The only difference between a winning team and a losing team is one game. The winning team can win two out of three games...the losing team can only win one out of three.