The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

We all die alone. We shall endure death as once we endured birth. You can’t share either experience.

I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.

I hate smoothies. Because they won't offer Firestone IPA beer as an ingredient.

Nature will tell you a direct lie if she can.

Our relationship with God flows out of our love for God.

Unlike some men, I had never drunk for boldness or charm or wit; I had used alcohol for precisely what it was, a depressant to check the mental exhilaration produced by extended sobriety.

I regret the things I didn't do, not what I did.

The BBC produces wonderful programmes; it also produces a load of old rubbish.

If only we knew what was happening when we pray, we would never cease to pray.

If the standard route for creating a family had worked for me, I wouldn't have met this child. I needed to know her. I needed to be her mother. She is, in every way my daughter.