Don't you feel that your scarred heart was made whole the moment you gave your service to Christ?

I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal.

Our current plight is not made inevitable by human nature. What once was could be again—in a new way.

Change seems recognizable only after it's happened, like putting one's foot down for a familiar stair—and it's not there.

You're always the person you were when you were born. You just keep finding new ways to express it.

Between what is and what could be?

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

The saint was once a sinner; the sinner will one day be a saint. The sinner is the child; the saint is the grown man. He who separates himself from sinners, regarding them as wicked men to be avoided, is like a man avoiding contact with little children because they are unwise, disobedient, and play with toys.

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

Often we talk about God's ability to change lives without fully understanding how to access that power.

It is no easy task to do away with a thing that is established. We, therefore, say that the non-beginning of a thing is supreme wisdom.

I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to.