Things that seem bad at the time are really blessings.

Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.

I have Tourettes syndrome.

The most difficult of decisions are often not the ones in which we cannot determine the correct course; rather the ones in which we are certain of the path but fear the journey.

Forgiveness does not require us to close our eyes but rather to truly open them.

So often the pain of our life is no more than a reminder to take our hand off the stove.

There are none so impoverished as those who do not acknowledge the abundance of their lives

such fickle days of love when pain and ecstasy share the same hour

The greatest shackles we bear in thislife are those forged by our own fears

Forgiveness is the key to the heart's shackles.

To choose the path is to choose the destination, but sometimes it seems that the path is under our feet even before we know we're walking.

As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.- (1772-1834)

When we give out to others we are also giving to our selves. It builds a life of meaning

The New Testament is a manifestation of God in the flesh.

Balance is the secret of reaching the far places!

The common misconception is that as an actress you have to learn what you're doing. No, you just have to make the audience think you've learned it.

Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.

Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.

When you talk about a million bucks, if you think about it very carefully, it's not that much money, if you start to divide it. You have to figure out a philosophy as to whom you want to give it to.

The great thing about being a writer is that you have a long, perhaps frighteningly long time in which to do your work.

The cure for pain is in the pain. Good and bad are mixed. If you don't have both, you don't belong with us.