They have money and position and Ann has none.It's amazing how often you can be right as long as you have those two things working in your favor.

I'm sorry, Gemma. But we can't live in the light all of the time. You have to take whatever light you can hold into the dark with you.

There are no safe choices. Only other choices.

I've heard it said that God is in the details. It's the same with the truth. Leave out the details, the crucial heart, and you can damn someone with the bare bones of it.

I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I've got to think.

One could argue that it's romantic to die for love. Of course, then you're dead and unable to take that honeymoon trip to the Alps with all the other fashionable young couples, which is a shame.

Might. Is there any opiate more powerful than that word?

Pippa's laugh is bitter, tinged with tears. 'Ha! Why do girls think being beautiful will solve every problem? Being beautiful just creates problems. It's a misery. I wish I were someone else.

I know because I read. Might I suggest you try it?

I can see his pain, see it in the way he runs his fingers through his hair, over and over, and I understand what it costs him to hide it all.

I'm an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share.

Love spills out of these people. That's what I want. Settling for anything less is a lie.

A man that hath friends must show himself friendly and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

Whatever the capacity for human suffering, the church has a greater capacity for healing and wholeness.

Rivers are roads that move and carry us whither we wish to go. [Fr., Les rivieres sont des chemins qui marchant et qui portent ou l'on veut aller.]

Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it

To be courageous requires no exceptional qualifications, no magic formula, no special combination of time, place, and circumstance. It is an opportunity that sooner or later is presented to us all.

I used to anticipate my childhood birthday parties as if each were an annual coronation. Like most kids, I loved sitting at the head of the table with a crown on my head.

I'm a dad, I'm a husband, I'm an activist, I'm a writer and I'm just a student of the world.

Know and understand that there will be challenges and difficult times. Don't try to avoid them. Welcome them. Gratefully.

I'm not much interested in sport just as sport. I wouldn't be interested in making a golf film or baseball or fishing film.