Loss is essential. Loss is part and parcel of that necessary calamity called life.

Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.

The whole quilt is much more important than any single square.

...you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair. In the end it’s all a question of balance.

World can be a bewildering place,and dreams and ambitions are often paths to the most pernicious of traps

...the face has limited space. My mother used to say, if you fill your face with laughing, there will be no more room for crying.

Money can buy the necessary police order. Justice is sold to the highest bidder

In the end, it’s all a question of balance.

So we tell the same story, over and over. Just the details are different

Time had changed the magical to mundane

Distance was a dangerous thing, she knew. Distance changed people.

What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation.

When we forgive others, we give ourselves permission to let go of our own suffering.

Never depend on single income. Make investment to create a second source.

Jesus Christ is not just 'my personal Savior'. He is Lord.

So Jesus confronts us with himself, sets before us a radical choice between obedience and disobedience, and calls us to an unconditional commitment of mind, will and life to his teaching.

The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers.

Imagination might be scarier than reality ... but not by much.

Videogame players essentially choose whether to win the game or to die heroically. There's a certain glory in both.

I was a Scientologist before I was an actress, and I've always felt people are not only content with whatever religion I have, but are always interested.

and when he moved it was like watching oil spread across a lake, smooth and fluid, almost vicious