But keep characters in propinquity long enough and a story will always develop a plot.

The way to love someone is to lightly run your finger over that person's soul until you find a crack, and then gently pour your love into that crack.

I'll tell you what pressure is. Pressure is a Messerschmitt up your arse. Playing cricket is not.

The primary symptom of a controller is denial, that is I can't see its symptoms in myself.

I am deeply a part of the problem for which Christ died.

I have learned to like myself for the first time and to have some serenity.

Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.

I wrote a book called The Taste of New Wine because I couldn't find a book that talked about the reality of the situation and how we were dishonest and afraid.

I am discovering that in trying to find God's will and the shape of the Christian life I have begun an adventure so great that its total completion will always be ahead.

I grew up and I became very successful at what I did as a young man. I became a work addict because this was the only way I could get any relief from this pain.

I remember when I was a little boy my father didn't love me; he couldn't. He loved my older brother but he couldn't love me somehow, at least not in a way I could understand it.

A great teacher will invite every student to learn and to participate and inspire more and more learning.

Okay, well...how's that water feeling, then?' 'Excuse me?' 'The Nile warm this time of the year?

Unless I work with Shah Rukh my career cannot be complete. I can't hang my boots till that happens.

What I do is take the jewelry back to the jeweler and they redo the jewelry with the same gold from the last thing.

The Millennium Development Goals are owned by the people.

I did not write it (Uncle Tom's Cabin). God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.

Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with reason and justice.

I think you get one great love in your life like that, if you're lucky enough, where you hold nothing back. And I'm not saying that's the healthiest way to love either.

[Jay] Gould sets up an artificial wall between the two worldviews that doesn't exist in my life.

If you can't get emotional about what you believe in your heart, you're in the wrong business.