To me, the human experience does involve a great deal of anguish. It's joyful, but it's bittersweet. I just think that's life.

The more time you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.

Do I think all contemporary Christian music is good? No.

But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion.

Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.

If I had my life to live over again, I'd run barefoot, relax a bit more, I'd talk more to children, and I'd learn how they laugh.

Get outside. Watch the sunrise. Watch the sunset. How does that make you feel? Does it make you feel big or tiny? Because there's something good about feeling both.

More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.

Anybody who's ever gone through a hard time - any outsider's perception, no matter how much information they're given, they have no idea what the person's life is like.

I can look at the future with anticipation. And it's comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we'll be able to look back and have a little more clarity on why certain things in life happened.

I feel a part of the congregation. I've never had to do special music. The kids sing in the choir. It's just normal. We're treated like everybody else.

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

The purity of prayer!

Let your life speak volumes holding your words accountable, lest you become just a talking head.

No man can really succeed if he doesn't move away from where he was born. I believe it is particularly true for the writer.

Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up.

You go through life in a series of peaks and valleys.

Maybe there's a trapdoor under my chair, and I'll just disappear.

The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.

Everything, as you well know . . . cannot always be sweetness and light.

The big thing that Moneypenny changed was the amount of charity work that I was able to be involved with.