Why is it so easy to abandon ourselves, and why do we so easily fall into the illusion that this self-abandonment is the only way people will like us?

As I was wheeled into the operating room I pleaded withGod for one more day, one more week, one more month with her.

Some part of me broke in prayer that morning, and some part of me was reborn as I gave myself fully and completely to prayer and to God in that moment.

When we start rating each other’s lives and afflictions, we lose a bit of our humanity, compassion and perspective.

Ignorance is sacred and im an atheist.

Healing is the hardest thing you'll ever do.' ~Quinn

Oliver liked to play the part of disaffected youth, but he liked shopping in SoHo even more.

Marriage is the most basic expression of the vocation to love that all men and women have as persons made in God's image.

And then the industry itself was so cocky about what they were doing that they weren't seeing what was coming on the horizon with Japan and Germany and other places that were building smaller cars.

People perceive her [Jill Stein ] as hurting [Hillary] Clinton. I think she's doing very well. I don't think the numbers will be good enough for them to be in the debate.

I was attorney general; my name is Meese. I say, go to college. Don't carry a piece.

She understood that her heart operated on its own instructions, that she had no control over it or, indeed, anything else.

Arguments are healthy. They clear the air.

Everything I'm teaching you about acting has one aim only: to fire you up emotionally and behaviorally so that you can give a vivid, involving, and memorable performance.