Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.

It is never too late to be what we might have been.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions but religiously follows the new.

Every beginning is hard.

I didn't leave the Beatles. The Beatles have left the Beatles, but no one wants to be the one to say the party's over.

People want to go back to those old days, but it's probably not going to happen.

One day I was in the movie world with its glamour and then when I looked at it realistically and realised my shelf life was over, I was out of it all, setting up office somewhere.

Are we going to answer God's call for this church to make a significant impact in this new millennium, or will we rest on past success?

I took her hands in both of mine. "Darlin', what happened in those woods does not define the rest of your life. People might look at you and say, 'There's that woman that was taken to the cabin in Kentucky.' But God doesn't look at you that way. He says, 'There's my daughter. There's my spotless bride that my Son died for.' What happened out there does not have to follow you.

And God has this funny way of stretching and changing and pushing us toward things we don't want to face. I don't think the past is something we deal with as much as it deals with us.

I am not a has-been. I am a will be.

Daily life took as much as she had. The future was sunset; the past something to leave behind. And if it didn't stay behind, well, you might have to stomp it out.