More than 3,500 hardcover novels are published each year. Even the most avid reader buys fewer than one a week.

In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.

Apart from the cross, there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven.

When we serve the poor and the sick we serve Jesus. We must not fail to help our neighbors, because in them we serve Jesus.

Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.

All the days that you wake up you have one job and that's to get better, every single day.

Without the burden of afflictions it is impossible to reach the height of Grace. The gift of Grace increases as the struggle increases.

We are made up of two contrasting ideals: Love And Fear. Pick One and Live.

Life sucks, but in a beautiful kind of way.

I'm not God but if I were God, ¾ of you would be girls, and the rest would be pizza and beer.

It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.

In the politics of the every day, our words and gestures, or their absence, count very much.

That's not me talking, it's your inner voice. I'd attempt the accent, only I don't speak low self-esteem. It's a language I've never needed to learn.

When humanity stops confusing the construct with the Kingdom - we'll begin to recognize the Truth.

An actor definitely has to be in the past a well as the present; an actor must react to past experiences every minute, every second.

O God, do not leave me. I have done nothing good in Your sight, but according to Your goodness, let me now make a beginning of good.

There's a cinematic quality that happens in my mind when I hear something that really lands. An album is just a journal of a life moving through time.

Nnothing tends more to the corruption of science than to suffer it to stagnate. These waters must be troubled, before they can exert their virtues.

How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!

Because we believe ourselves to be better parents than our parents, we expect to produce better children than they produced.

The theater used to be a place where you look like a human being. Now people look like they just got out of bed.