The difficulty of course is that I like women. It is only wives I am in trouble with.
Men cannot expect to do ill and fare well, but to find that done to them which they did to others.
None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see.
The anger of a meek man is like fire struck out of steel, hard to be got out, and when it is, soon gone.
Anger cannot rest in the bosom where love reigns.
Though we cannot by our prayers give God any information, yet we must by our prayers give him honor.
Better to get up late and be wide awake then, than to get up early and be asleep all day.
Compassion in evangelical churches is out of balance. When I talk about it, I get a lot of glazed expressions.
I think grief is like a really ugly couch. It never goes away. You can decorate around it; you can slap a doily on top of it; you can push it to the corner of the room-but eventually, you learn to live with it.
I'm not a victim. And the people who are victims of something, my heart is completely with them. But I'm not. I know I've been treated like a woman in this business [acting]. I mean I've got lots of stories, but they don't have any control over me.
What's most remarkable about the conservative activists who promote a small, hysterical group of conspiracy theorists claiming a Muslim theocracy is the greatest threat facing America today is that they are also promoters of the mythology that America was founded and should be governed as a Christian nation - or, when they're feeling magnanimously ecumenical, a "Judeo-Christian" nation.