My dad was very worried that I wasn't saving and didn't have a pension. I've never invested well.

Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat.

A man doesn't need to be flawless to be a perfect father, but the commitment to his family is a precious responsibility.

Don't ever discount the wonder of your tears. They can be healing waters and a stream of joy. Sometimes they are the best words the heart can speak.

Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved.

Grace doesn't depend on suffering to exist, but where there is suffering you will find grace in many facets and colors.

I suppose that since most of our hurts come through relationships, so will our healing.

Life takes a bit of time and a lot of relationship.

those who are afraid of freedom are those who cannot trust us to live in them. Trying to keep the law is actually a declaration of independence, a way of keeping control

Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive.

So many believe that it is love that grows, but it is the knowing that grows and love simply expands to contain it.

Do not think that your magic ring will work if you are not yourself Solomon.

A lady never shows her anger, she channels it to further her ends.

Truth suffers from too much analysis.

I used to believe my art had to be about the things that brought me joy and gave me hope. But I learned that art can be found in all of life, even in pain.

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

I'd go to work early, before anyone got there, and I would just kill the animals myself...I must have killed a thousand of them, sometimes dozens every day.

Men cheat for the same reason that dogs lick their balls... because they can.

Slum kids die slowly, their lives eroded at so languid a pace that even they would have trouble tracing the disintegration. To the children of war death explodes like a car bomb.

Most minds are the slaves of external circumstances, and conform to any hand that undertakes to mould them.

I didn't do anything very pretty. My contributions were in the intangibles. But, they were the type of things that help lead a team.