Surely words are just the background music when passion pounces on a soul.

How remarkable we are in our ability to hide things from ourselves - our conscious minds only a small portion of our actual minds, jellyfish floating on a vast dark sea of knowing and deciding.

We are each the love of someone's life.

Does love always form, like a pearl, around the hardened bits of life?

So tell me gentleman, tell me the time and place where it was easy to be a woman.

When you were a little girl, Madam.....was this the woman you dreamed of becoming?

It may be a childish torment, but we do not get to choose our demons.

The possibilities. Is there any greater pain to know what could be, and yet be powerless to make it be?

When I meet a woman whose energy falters at the first barrier,she seems to fade beside my mother.

It is a brave and stupid thing, a beautiful thing, to waste one's life for love.

I love going to writers' colonies in pastoral settings where there's nothing to do, but either walk around or read a book or work on your book.

The Lord God is my strength. He sustains my spirit.

A daring faith, a willing spirit.

I'm a catalyst for change. You can't be an outsider and be successful over 30 years without leaving a certain amount of scar tissue around the place.

An instant-read thermometer is your best bet for making sure that meat and fish are cooked to the proper temperature.

Man lives in a world of meaning.

Though the singer is silent…there is still the truth of the song.

Consider well before you immerse yourself in solitude whether your own company will be good for you.

When you feel betrayed by someone that you trust the most... As an actor, you look for something that's going to let you express some of your inner emotions and anger.

All men were alien one to another, at times, not only aliens.

Evangelical faith without Christian ethics is a travesty on the gospel.