If God were not only to hear our prayers, as he does ever and always, but to answer them as we want them answered, he would not be God our Saviour but the ministering genius of our destruction.

The back door of every tomb opens on a hilltop.

pencils racing across paper, a sound I like." Marisol

It had always been a breathtaking view, the kind that made him inhale and forget to exhale . . .

I live in a house with four women. Just shut up and say, Yes, ma'am.

My dad took me to my first movie. It was 'The Greatest Show on Earth' in 1952, a movie of such scale it was actually a traumatic experience.

If I pop everyone who calls me a diva then I'm going to spend the rest of my life in prison.

We try to keep the beautiful memories, but other things from the past creep up on us.

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

We become what we look at most.

Faith is not the absence of doubt; it is continuing to follow Jesus in the midst of doubt.

We never know what we are talking about.