In the Soviet Union we have a saying, a pessimist is someone who believes things can't get any worse. An optimist thinks maybe they can.

You only find complete unanimity in a cemetary.

A woman’s mission centered on home and family — vital spheres of ministry to be sure, but only a slice of the vast mission God originally cast by calling women to rule and subdue the earth.

Without faith and hope, how could we have survived life?

I am blind to the very things that make for our own peace.

The biggest chance you can take in life is by not taking any chances at all. It's important, but music is my heart and this is what makes me the most revenue, so be grit, don't quit.

I was a tomboy and any time anyone says something about me being hot, it makes me giggle.

Like a flying bird you came into my life. Your love was the strength that let me take the plunge. I didn't think that I would ever be this way but you have changed all things for me.

Decide exactly what you want to achieve. Do you want to help people, or do you want to be powerful?

Of course we all know that Morris was a wonderful all-round man, but the act of walking round him has always tired me.

It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.

He felt that the darkness was full of unimaginable horrors - and the trouble with unimaginable horrors was that they were only too easy to imagine.