To live out God’s plan for your life calls for you to discipline yourself…and your body. To push yourself. To deny yourself.

What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tree.

It takes a lot of grace and maturity to simply forgive, but a lot of healing takes place when you do.

the demons that make a person afraid are the hardest to cast out.

There is no escape if love is not there

She snatched at the dream that had comforted her for so long. It was faded and thin, like a letter too often read.

Each day is precious when we consider what we can do to serve God and His Kingdom.

Remember to say what you mean, but don't say it meanly.

God uses the flawed, the failures, and the imperfect to accomplish His perfect will.

Expectations destroy our peace of mind. They are future disappointments, planned out in advance.

Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps.

what's life without a little risk

Cyberspace can't compensate for real space. We benefit from chatting to people face to face.

Obviously, I didn't think, and nobody else did, that the Iraqis were going to take all of Kuwait .

Jimmy used to drink liquor. Now he's running for president and he drinks Scotch, and I've never trusted a Scotch-drinker.

Companies, however unintentionally, choke the motivation out of their employees.

We will drain the swamp in Washington, D.C., and replace it with a new government, of, and by, and for the people.

I am not an enormous believer in research being the be-all and end-all. I get suspicious when I read about actors spending six months in a clinic, say, in order to play someone who is sick.

I absolutely love Vancouver! One, because the city is beautiful and very easily walkable, and two, because the city keeps giving me work!

I think when I write movies and plays and books and magazine articles, they're all storytelling, and reality is the common denominator that binds them.

Fortunately, I don't talk about politics on stage.