Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

No one described him better than he did when someone accused him of being rich. “No, not rich, ” he said. “I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

There will always be trouble so there will always be a time for heroes

A suffering or tortured animal always filled her with such a surge of sympathy that it lifted her clean out of herself.

Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life.

Love has to be reciprocated for it to be real.

I have always felt that if I am very personal and connected with what I myself am living, my writing will transcend ecclesial boundaries.

Loudness is impotence.

I think most people are more important than their opinions.

I think my music is great for film, but I don't have the opportunity, or goesche to go and pitch myself to Hollywood.

The greatest honor of a man is in doing good to his fellow men, not in destroying them.