What we seem to perceive influences what we feel, and what we feel influences what we say we perceive

The undistracted experience of affects of just about any sort, when free of practical consequences, appears to have intrinsic appeal for many of us.

[L]anguage cannot match music's subtlety and preciseness of expression.

His eyes widened just a bit, his lips flexed. I realized he was trying not to laugh. I hate it when people find my threats amusing.

My heart had a crush on him from the moment we met, but it was faint, and the rest of me stubbornly refused to play along.

Even if we eat the best diet ever (and I highly recommend that we do), we still may not achieve the longevity that is possible.

Your health is what you make of it. Everything you do and think either adds to the vitality, energy and spirit you possess or takes away from it.

Yes, I've worked hard; and yes, I may have achieved a certain level of success-but I'm very clear about the fact that none of it would be worth it without doing the things that keep me close to God.

Everything was God, holy; as God is total, so the driftwood branch was holy. This must be the stuff religion is made of.

For years, I kept a Post-it note above my desk. WORK NOT LOVE! was what it said. It seemed a sturdier kind of happiness.

Do you know whether or not you are in God's grace? Joan: If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.

You cannot cure a lesser evil by a greater evil.

I think actors' careers have highs and lows, and ups and downs. It just really all depends.