The next time an unbeliever tells you they would believe in God "if He would just do a miracle, " you will know that is not true. Miracles do not convert people, God converts people.

To perceive is to suffer.

An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.

One of the best things to do sometimes is simply to be.

I'm not a good guitar player.

I have good days and bad days, but they aren't much different.

I don't want to be 'the girl with cancer' ... I just didn't want that to be my only thing. But it is part of me. And it's a big part of me.

Once we realize the extraordinary power we have to compose our lives, well move from passive, conditioned thinking to being co-creators of our fate.

The less taste a person has in dress, the more obstinate he always seems to be.

When you change what you believe, you change what you do.

When I die and I'm lucky enough or fortunate enough and brave enough throughout my life to get into Heaven and I see Octavia Spencer sitting there then all is good.