My grandfather, a devout Christian, had the gift of healing.

Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.

I have Tourettes syndrome.

The most difficult of decisions are often not the ones in which we cannot determine the correct course; rather the ones in which we are certain of the path but fear the journey.

Forgiveness does not require us to close our eyes but rather to truly open them.

So often the pain of our life is no more than a reminder to take our hand off the stove.

There are none so impoverished as those who do not acknowledge the abundance of their lives

such fickle days of love when pain and ecstasy share the same hour

The greatest shackles we bear in thislife are those forged by our own fears

Forgiveness is the key to the heart's shackles.

To choose the path is to choose the destination, but sometimes it seems that the path is under our feet even before we know we're walking.

That kind of love should've been able to beat sickness. That kind of love should've conquered anything.

History repeats itself but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.

I would say that ISIS wants us to think so. And I think that's the real danger here. It's that what ISIS wants the narrative to be is that they are the true Muslims.

Seriously? You won’t help me?” “Help yourself get killed? No, I won’t.

I've been told I have an Irish temper, I know I have Scottish thrift, and, like the English, I love a good show.

God, find us on our knees because we know that when we get our knees, You extend Your powerful right hand.

Being nominated is the win. For me, being nominated is winning. It's just unbelievable.

You know the one I want to do? I want to make Batgirl.

Well, American dialects have been studied for a hundred years or so.

I can't say, over the miles, that I had learned what I had wanted to know because I hadn't known what I wanted to know. But I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know.