So many people don't know that God loves them. They feel, 'Why would God love me? Why would He be interested in me?

I live in a village where people still care about each other, largely.

One of the things that makes a dead leaf fall to the ground is the bud of the new leaf that pushes it off the limb.

Easter is never deserved.

Phillipians 4:13 for Pete's sake!

Love is an endless act of forgiveness.

There may be circumstances in this life that God uses to keep bringing us back to Him, looking for His grace.

In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder.

Loving can be hard. Sometimes we don't feel loving, but it isn't all about feeling. Very often it is about will. Practice that if you can.

My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.

...weary of k knowing too much and understanding too little.

The past is perception. The future is unknown. The only truth is the present.

Rubbing absently at my temple, I do declare this woman leaves me flabbergasted and tongue tied.

He whines, he complains, he ducks out of the most obvious responsibility. He is vain, petty and maddening, but he doesn't ever quit.

I probably have another two or three years. Or I can pass tomorrow, but it doesn't make a difference to me.

You cannot go with God and stay where you are.

The democratic process is supposed to be one person one vote, but it turns out that money is talking louder than the votes.

This thing called thinking, just as you think of it, the more you think of it, the best thinking can be NOT to think of it.

An effective apology contains within it the answer to the question, "How am I to be held accountable?"

People see themselves as 'succeeding' because they are individually exceptional -- they don't see that there is a mechanism that has made it possible for them.

It's really exciting to be in a film that people actually want to go and see! I was having to pay people to see my movies!