Satan and all his agents, with all their combined strength and subtilty, cannot separate one soul from Christ.

You never know who's going to be in the audience. You never know who is going to be hearing that piece for the first time, and you never know who is going to be hearing that piece for the last time.

When we all sing with one voice, the world will stop and listen.

Success lasts only three seconds. After that you're the same as you were before you had it.

In theory it may seem all right to some, but when it comes to being made the instrument of the Lord's vengeance, I myself don't like it.

You don't see something until you have the right metaphor to perceive it.

There's no future in being poor.

I was never really a character actor - I was a leading man who was always cast as a character. I wanted to be Jack Nicholson or Jean Gabin.

I don't want to write every week, it's too much trouble, and I shall only write when I want something. If you think I'm sick when I don't write, you can send for me to come and tell you.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

Well written and easy to enjoy." executive director of Association of Science and Technology Museums

Don't go to sleep doused in hatred.Instead go to sleep snuggled in love.

I think at its most mature, love is a very bourgeois state. There is something about luxuriating in the nest of love that people fall into naturally.

There is such a thing as the poetry of a mistake, and when you say, "Mistakes were made," you deprive an action of its poetry, and you sound like a weasel.

I have a thing with the camera. The lens is unconditional. It doesn't judge you.

I write for young girls of color, for girls who don’t even exist yet, so that there is something there for them when they arrive. I can only change how they live, not how they think.

People used to always talk down to me, like, "Oh, you're so young," but now I recognize that my age is an advantage; there's a lot more I can do.

Right now I'm the greatest. I don't say this through vanity. It's just that the rest are so bad.

Faith is believing in the impossible because we have a God who is master of impossible.