I should just put it bluntly, because we're all sort of friends here now - it's exceedingly likely that my greatest success is behind me. Oh, so Jesus, what a thought! You know that's the kind of thought that could lead a person to start drinking gin at nine o'clock in the morning, and I don't want to go there.

There is a reason they call God a presence - because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time.

He was powerful and I died of love in his shadow.

I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.

This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude.

The fantasy of the wedding day is that it represents undeniable public and private truth that you have been chosen. For that one day, you are the most valuable creature in the world - a treasure, a princess, a prize.

They say that there are three kinds of people in the world. There are people who never learn one way or another anything; there are people who learn from their own mistakes, eventually and with great pain; and then there are the really wise people who learn from other people's mistakes and spare themselves the suffering.