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Eli: I walk by faith, not by sight.

We need never refrain from asking anything of God simply on the ground that we think it impossible. God specializes in "impossible" things that are too good to be true.

When I'm working, I get super lazy and I just do something that I'm familiar with.

It's easy enough to pray when you're in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a sealing process, helping your soul hold tight to its good attainment.

I make conscious decisions to stay out of the limelight. Without my make-up I'm pretty much the girl next door.

Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will -- it's only action that can make a man.

Eventually my goal is get a place in Ojai where I can have animals and a big garden. Just drink wine all day and hang in my garden.

Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.

Funny how we think of romance as always involving two, when the romance of solitude can be ever so much more delicious and intense.

Our enemies are our outward consciences.