I just think that wigs and makeup and costumes completely transform me.

We Catholics must admit that there is a constant temptation among us to avoid the lectionary and the Word of God for private and pious devotions that usually have little power to actually change us or call our ego assumptions into question.

Whether something is old-fashioned or not doesn't resolve the question of whether it's true or not. I can see the temptation of simply thinking, 'Well, there's a cultural mainstream which flows neatly in one direction. You just align with it'. And that really won't do.

I grew up in Tennessee. I loved to wear full glam. I used to want to wear flash lashes every single day. I remember wearing them once and someone was like, 'Are you wearing false lashes?' I felt embarrassed. In the U.S., it's perceived as though you're trying too hard.

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn't be here. I guarantee you that.

The gospel may not make a sow's ear into a silk purse, but it will make everybody better if they live it. I've tried it. It stands the test.

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

It is the study of how the human brain was designed—by natural selection—to mislead us, even enslave us.

from natural selection's point of view, feelings would make great labels for thoughts, labels that say things like "high priority," "medium priority," "low priority.

Do not force me to look any longer at what I have become. Tell me instead what is to come.

He knew that an existing structure had to be torn down or at least restructured before anything new and lasting could be built on the same foundation

Never be a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of you future. You will never be the same.