Act one: put your characters in a tree. Act two: throw rocks at them. Act three: get them down again.

We can only keep what we have by being willing to freely give it away; a paraphrase of Jesus Christ.

Best smiles come after the toughest time.

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

If God is for us, who can be against us?

If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

Why not learn to enjoy the little things-there are so many of them.

Remember the past, plan for the future, but live for today, because yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

God helps those who help themselves.

If you want money, you must work to earn it.

The truth shall your soul free.

I know who you are. I love you. I love everything about you that hurts.

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.

I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home. I thus dispose of the superfluous and see things as they are, grand and beautiful.

I've got a very peculiar sort of fame, based on being on the telly. It doesn't mean you have the lifestyle people expect.

The more you speak of yourself, the more you are likely to lie.

I should have been happy: I wasn’t.

Everything in painting is about relationship, so I judge each area by its relationship to the surrounding areas.

Memoirists wish to tell their mind, not their story.