Could he really want a relationship with a woman who was at the point in life of trading beauty for wisdom?

I'm more interested in lookin' forward than back. The past is done and there's no changin' it.

I'll try to turn the other cheek....But I've only got two and they're both stinging.

It's been much harder to forgive myself. My mistake was like a pebble dropped in a pond. The ripple effect has impacted everyone I love.

I am what I am... but for the first time in my life, I'm sorry for it.

We can best honor our dead by livin' well. Moving' forward dusna mean y love them any less. It just means ye're still alive.

Maybe, now and then, we have to give up a portion of our kingdoms--the things we hold dearest--to find what it is God wants for us.

Naomi knew she should pray... Instead, she put her face in her hands and wept with all the force of a bursting dam.

The truth be told, Lord, I don't like you very much right now.

Men fight like men. Women fight like unchained demons.

What else is there to do in this world but love other people?

I never liked being a salesman. . . . Ever since I got my first two orders: Get out! and Stay out!

I write human stories. I write about people. Not as a product of their environment. But from the stance that everybody is made of the same thing.

Don't let the storm take the wind out of your sails.

The nations of the world will have to unite for the next war will be an interplanetary war. The nations of Earth must some day make a common front against attack by people from other planets.

Get really, really good so that when people say your name, your name is associated with quality, with integrity.

I think that Nature meant kindly when she made our brothers few. However, my voice is still for peace.

As the stars looked to me when I was a shepherd in Assyria, they look to me now as a New-Englander.

I think that both musicals and opera have a capacity to get to an inner emotional landscape.

You have to give directors and cinematographers a word blueprint for visuals, but I had to learn that from experience.