The 'will to power and independence' has become so ubiquitous that it is now considered normal.

Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat.

Don't ever discount the wonder of your tears. They can be healing waters and a stream of joy. Sometimes they are the best words the heart can speak.

Grace doesn't depend on suffering to exist, but where there is suffering you will find grace in many facets and colors.

Life takes a bit of time and a lot of relationship.

those who are afraid of freedom are those who cannot trust us to live in them. Trying to keep the law is actually a declaration of independence, a way of keeping control

Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive.

So many believe that it is love that grows, but it is the knowing that grows and love simply expands to contain it.

I suppose that since most of our hurts come through relationships so will our healing, and I know that grace rarely makes sense for those looking in from the outside.

You cannot produce trust just like you cannot 'do' humility. It either is or is not.

Did I hear God call me an idiot?

Invest your time and buy greatness with it.

It was like diving into winter waves. "I can't, " I told him."Why not?""Because I need to find out who I am by myself before I can be with anyone else.

Adversity sure does gives you trouble, but it keeps you humble.

Nothing is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness.

My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines. There's not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.

Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious.

Virginians were nice, they confided to each other, if caught singly. Two Virginians, of course, talked horses.

I am not someone who sacrifice all for the cinema, my life will be always more important.

To my eye, women get sexier around 35. They know a thing or two, and knowledge is always alluring.

I was always the type of person that whenever I started something I finished it. And, I was always held accountable for my actions.