Most people believe that the Christian commandments are intentionally a little too severe

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God

It is not the path which is the difficulty; rather, it is the difficulty which is the path.

The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.

A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized prayer is listening.

For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.

It is not where we breathe, but where we Love, that we live.

Once you label me you negate me.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

It is hard to adapt to chaos, but it can be done. I am living proof of that: It can be done

Turning into a vampire is like signing a supernatural contract and like any contract, there are clauses.And there is the fine print.

Never lend books - nobody ever returns them the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me.

The genre of television that I love and watch is so vast. There's not one type of thing I love.

I never even went to high school because I went straight from middle school into the music business. I don't really know what it is supposed to be like.

No one could have called Mr. Standen quick-witted, but the possession of three sisters had considerably sharpened his instinct of self-preservation.

Venus, a beautiful, good-natured lady, was the goddess of love; Juno, a terrible shrew, the goddess of marriage: and they were always mortal enemies.

True vision is the ability to see in another more than they are showing you.

What we need is a theology of salvation that begins and ends with a recognition of every person's hunger for glory.

You write a lot of bad songs before you write good ones. It takes time!