Sometimes you can do things for others that you can't do for yourself.

Let us never forget to pray. God lives. He is near. He is real. He is not only aware of us but cares for us. He is our Father. He is accessible to all who will seek Him.

If you don’t write the book you have to write, everything breaks.

In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.

Books tell you more about their owners than the owners do.

If we are worried about the future, then we must look today at the upbringing of children.

People should pay more attention. Everyone wants attention, but no one wants to give attention.

It's my policy not to review funerals.

I'm nothing you can catch now. I am black powder, I am singe, I am the bomb that bursts the night.

Was this the big one or was this the small tremor, the warning? Does it get better - does the sensation of being in a dream underwater go away?

We wear on our faces the results of what we believe and how we behave, and such behavior is most evident in the eyes and on the faces of those who have lived many years.

Faith is an organ of knowledge, and love an organ of experience.

If I can aid one in distress, If I can make a burden less, If I can spread more happiness, Lord, show me how.

Such coincidences were the rhymes that God wrote into fate, his chords of music.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

I'm doing a collaborative project with another artist, Mary Hamill. My project is to gather the oral history of war widows, starting with the women of my village, Kop Nymit.

Friends are really important, especially when you've had the successes that I've had. I've gone really far in my career, so they're the ones that keep you humble, keep your feet on the ground.

I'd say that the No. 1 attribute you need as an actor is to be malleable. You need to be able to change and tailor what you're doing to what the situation dictates.

London and Fog! When these two come together, it is time to be a writer!

The excruciating moments of drama are when people are allowed to show or say what they feel.

Death when to death a death by death hath given Then shall be op't the long shut gates of heaven. [Mors, mortis morti mortem nisi morte dedisset (dedisses).]