You are not insane if you believe in things that don't exist. You are insane if you are the only one believing in it. This is the difference between religion and insanity.

Christianity is not about how to escape from the difficulties of life - it is about how to face the difficulties of life.

If my work was good enough, I would never have to do publicity.

If I'd had any way of knowing that things were- as Lily Tomlin once said- going to get a whole lot worse before they got worse, I'm not sure how I would have slept that night.

The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.

My role [as a war correspondent] is to bring a voice to people who are voiceless [and] to shine a light in the darkest corners of the world.

Is political discourse still just shouting opinions about subjective, hot-button issues based on poor understanding and outright ignorance about which agreements can never be reached?

It doesn't matter if you're religious or not. Does anything make you feel more uncomfortable than some stranger going, I'd like to talk to you about Jesus?

I'm not really a churchy person, although I do think Jesus was a good bloke.

I cry out from the ashes, burned with sin and shame. I ask you Lord to make me whole again.

What she had long believed was not true, and now the world was wide open to discover what was. It is like all my life I thought the sky was green.