Remember sixteen – when all the world was new and a lifetime stretched before you like fresh snow just waiting for your footprints?

As the last curtain falls on a spent year, a new year pirouettes to center stage with the elegance and charm of a prima ballerina – and delivers the promise of peace, hope, love and joy.

The mind can't delete what the heart won't let go of.

Ah, Lovely October, as you usher in the season that awakens my soul, your awesome beauty compels my spirit to soar like an leaf caught in an autumn breeze and my heart to sing like a heavenly choir.

Whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul, I shall recall the memory of warm, sunny, late summer afternoons like this one, and be comforted greatly.

I have learned that I must push the pause button occasionally and retreat into that private place in my soul where it is only me and God!

Surround yourself with people who make you laugh. Laughter is to the soul what sunshine is to a flower.

The human spirit is a magnificent entity. Just when we think we can stand no more, something significant touches our soul... and life goes on.

Writing unlocks the heart, mind and soul that we may be receptive to God's blessings.

As I drift through the autumn of my life like a fallen leaf blown about by the winds of time, I sometimes ponder my destiny.

Ah, how quickly the hands on the clock circle toward the future we thought was far away! And how soon we become our mothers.

To be intuitive is to possess a godly characteristic: to be bad at second-guessing the good.

All relationships are teleological, are going somewhere.

I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?

To me, the ultimate crime in an adaptation is the crime of reverence. A novel is one form of media, a screenplay is another, and a movie is yet another. There's even reverence to a screenplay.

We cannot change our memories, but we can change their meaning and the power they have over us.

Film has a tendency to be limiting in some way and it shouldn't be. It's a form that can be explored and changed.

I never have time to myself; it's the one thing about my life I would probably hope to change.

The criminal, like the artist, is a social explorer.

The Bible tries to make humans not animals the whole time. I think it's a bit of a mistake.

Folks, this government isn't too big to fail, it's too big to succeed.