I think that one way of diffusing an insult is to turn it around and laugh at yourself - that's a way of coping with it - and another is to just ignore it.

If you're the creative, artsy one who goes off to study painting or filmmaking, you're often seen as an outsider partly because traditionally, it has never been seen as a way to have a career.

There's a sense of knowing when to stop and take a break from things, to step back from the work you're making, and of changing things up to keep them interesting for yourself.

Jackson asked, "Where'd the water come from in your house?""A pipe." Then he explained to Jackson, "Water travels in pipes.

She moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.

As a parent you try to maintain a certain amount of control and so you have this tug-of-war ... You have to learn when to let go. And that's not easy.

Jesus calls men, not to a new religion, but to life.

Suppose you should fail. Is that so terrible? Not to have tried is a worse failure.

It is always your heaviest bore who is astonished at the tameness of modern celebrities: naturally; for a little of his company has reduced them to a state of flaccid fatigue.

Forgetting is a very good survival mechanism.

If you just read Leviticus on the surface, you may think it's just a bunch of grumpy irrelevant rules; but, it's actually the way God gave his people access to himself.

I personally will be overjoyed when the Canadian courts rule to return John Graham back to the US to answer for this brutal murder.

Plurality is not to be posited without necessity.