To know what a person has done, and to know who a person is, are very different things.

Cruel birds, ravens, but wise. And creatures should be loved for their wisdom if they cannot be loved for kindness.

A bubble of fear passes up my spine. It's the feeling of standing on ice and suddenly hearing it crack under your weight - both thrilling and terrifying together.

If I believed everything everyone had ever told me about my family I'd be a sight more miserable than I am now

The treachery of a friend is worse than that of a foe.

As though prayer could simply pluck sin out. But any woman knows that a thread, once woven, is fixed in place; the only way to smooth a mistake is to let it all unravel.

I don't want to be remembered, I want to be here!

I preferred to read than talk with the others.

So lonely I make friends with the ravens that prey on lambs.

No doves come from ravens’ eggs

When did a smile ever get anyone into trouble?

Love should not be polluted with friendship.

I spend almost every morning with mail.

Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.

Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly.

I sometimes lament the fact that I do not have the benefit of a complete and ailment free body structure.

Love is hanging out at the ocean, watching my wife and little girls play in the sand. I know, I threw up a little too, but it's true.

You are as safe with me as you would be in the Bank of England.

I love working with people who can teach me, because they're masters of the same business I'm in.

Both my study of Scripture and my career in entertaining children have taught me to cherish them.