You have no enemy until you make one.

We’re born alone and we die alone, I accept that. But why, God, do we have to be alone in the middle?

happy women get softer and rounder.

If you would have peace, genuine peace, you must accept all the aspects of your personality and learn to be comfortable with them.

I'm Irish!...When I feel well I feel better than anyone, when I am in pain I yell at the top of my lungs, and when I am dead I shall be deader than anybody.

Waiting is worse than knowing. Grief rends the heart cleanly, that it may begin to heal; waiting shreds the spirit.

Wine could become a place rather than a beverage.

Intuition is the voice of the spirit within you.

The pain we bring to others we cannot escape ourselves.

He took her into his arms again, using all his strength to be gentle, and let his lips touch hers so lightly he could hardly feel it.

There is a cruelty that lurks in some men’s souls which is only released when they have other men in their power.

It’s when your plans look dead that God’s resurrection power begins to operate in your life in greater measure

Where does love reveal itself? In beds, sofas, bathtubs – each section of a department store has its advantages.

...you suddenly realise that every chance of being the person you really wanted to be, is gone for ever, and the one you were, is the one those around you will remember.

When I look at a painting it isn't only the painting I see but the thing that I am. If there is more in the painting that I am, then I won't see it.

Hatred is the spiritual malignancy of our species, and like any other form of cancer, does its most terrible work not outwardly, but from within us.

People everywhere are the same; they are all people to be loved. They are all hungry for love.

Praising the Lord and passing the ammunition are mutually exclusive ideas.

I don't rehash the past. It's my baggage. That's all. I accept things as they are.

I prefer to be flippant about acting, just in case I'm rubbish.

It is a simple procedure to calculate the number of seeds in an apple. But who among us can ever say how many apples are in a seed?