You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

We may be through with our past, but the past isn't through with us.

It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

I stopped performing because I don't have the temperament of a performer. You have to want to do the same thing over and over again. Once I got it right, I didn't want to do it again. I always use the analogy of a novelist who has to read his novel in public night after night. I just didn't want to do it.

Jesus is much more concerned about shaking your foundations, giving you an utterly alternative self image, world image, and God image, and thus reframing your entire reality. Mere inspiration can never do this.

I think the membrane - I say that the membrane between life and death is perilously thin. And I do think the story of Jesus, this great mythical story, can have transforming value in our lives.

There was no question but what he had just experienced came from beyond him—a sign of his transformation, and certainly the wonder of it all. Love so pure, so intense, burned away all he had been. No longer was he the second son, the princeling who would never make his rightful claim, the man of thwarted ambitions, the lonely officer trapped in a post and a land that hated him and all that he stood for. None of this mattered. Not in the face of this love.

His revolution is about—one that changes a person to be able to do something even that impossible." "Do the others... do they believe as you do?" "Oh yes. The new kingdom will be one of restoration. Of peace. We will no longer have need for instruments of war.

Memories were not always pleasant, she decided. Memories could bring pain, too.

Have you grown since I saw you last?" "No, master. I'm still the runt you left behind." "I have never called you that. Scamp, most certainly. Scoundrel, almost daily. But never runt."

I'm sick of people sittin' in chairs stating their problems. Then we roll the videotape... then we have our experts on the topic... I'm in the 'What's next?' phase of my career.

What makes a good work of art is something that honors certain traditions and breaks with others.