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You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails.

...The question is, why do you think you can't be a writer?

I begin to call Morrie Coach, the way I used to address my high school track coach. Morrie likes the nickname. Coach, he says. All right, I'll be your coach. And you can be my player. You can play all...

Although I am a person who expected to be rooted in one spot forever, as it has turned out I love having the memories of living in many places.

Life ... is only heavy and none else; there is only the one trip, all heavy. Heavy that leads to the grave. For everyone and everything.

One afternoon, I am complaining about the confusion of my age, what is expected of me versus what I want for myself.

But heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners. And heaven itself has many steps.

Every great work of art, I would declare pompously, is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life.

A person's authentic nature is a series of shifting, variegated planes that establish themselves as he relates to different people; it is created by and appears within the framework of his...

Ecclesiastes calls you the All-powerful; the Maccabees call you the Creator; the Epistle to the Ephesians calls you liberty; Baruch calls you Immensity; the Psalms call you Wisdom and Truth; John...

For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.

Other people's sorrows and joys have a way of reminding us of our own; we partly empathize with them because we ask ourselves: What about me? What does that say about my life, my pains, my anguish?

You are a donkey. What God gave you in eyes took it to you.

Give me a bias and I will move the world.

Pride of one's work is not improper, unladylike, or vain. We can all take a lesson from the sea turtle. She does not travel thousands of miles or risk all for her ego. She has an instinct for...

But at least he can still see the lights below us. Although maybe for him it doesn't matter.

Because sometimes in this life we're given things that we don't deserve – that we haven't done anything to merit, so to speak. We don't have to give those up if they come our way. And remember this:...

I don't want to leave the world in a state of fright. I want to know what's happening, accept it, get to a peaceful place, and let go

Those who put themselves with double meaning conversations have to think first of what they are getting into. A straight person who speaks as he grew up the beak rarely takes in the tromb. And if it...

We speak of facts, yet facts exist only partially to us if they are not repeated and re-created through emotions, thoughts and feelings. To me it seemed as if we had not really existed, or only half...

I am suddenly left alone again on the sunny path, with a memory of the rain.

The Germans will be beaten in a few months. And Japan will be beaten a few months after that. If I were to give up my life now, it wouldn't be for my country. It would be for Cathcart and Korn. So I'm...

Speaking from the heart is simple. Listening wholeheartedly, however, is much, much more difficult and most rare.

Something you always look for, but never know when it's going to happen

In such a way is freedom of thought lost... By small cuts. By small acts of disapproval. By a thousand discouragements of spirit.

Traditional Botswana men like ladies who are more traditionally shaped. You and I, Mma. We remind men of how things used to be in Botswana before these modern-shaped ladies started to get men all...

I felt as if time were suddenly precious, water going down an open drain, and I could not move quickly enough.

I love playing Blair Cramer, and I'm thrilled to see what more they have in store for her. After playing this role for so many years, I still feel like there is so much about her that is still untold.

What the Internet has done is it has decentralised power.

You make 'em, I amuse 'em.

I have to have a daily, vibrant relationship with Jesus in order to survive that process toward healing.

I knew that I had it tough compared to children around me. But I felt like I needed it. I think I had the wisdom as a child to know that it would help me later on.

I came from a broken home, so my mom was a major influence in my life.