We have not even sworn off. Instead, the problem has been removed. It does not exist for us.

We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.

We will see that our new attitude toward liquor has been given to us without any thought or effort on our part. It just comes! That is the miracle of it.

We are not cured of alcoholism. What we have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition. Every day is a day when we must carry the vision of God's will into all of our daily activities.

We have not even sworn off. Instead, the problem has been removed. It does not exist for us.

Whether the family goes on a spiritual basis or not, the alcoholic member has to if he would recover. The others must be convinced of his new status beyond the shadow of a doubt. Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

It had never occurred to me to write a historical novel, but then I found Hadley in the pages of Hemingway's 'A Moveable Feast' and wanted to know more about her - who she was, how she and Ernest met and fell in love, what it was like for her to be married to such a demanding and stormy force of nature.

I have a very muscular face.

Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

Those who have trouble reading are those who have trouble moving ahead in the appreciation of all that life has to offer.

With the advent of spring and beginning of the new harvest season the creators of abundance, our peasants, come out to the fields to sow with good aspirations and hopes.

For me to go to America - which I find such a positive place - well, I took to it like a duck to water.

For me it's the instrument. If I want to think of a flute and the state of the arts I hear a vibrato; I don't know what a flute is unless the person plays it for me.

The very first movie that I ever saw in a theater was 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.'

Mark Twain's Roughing It is a book that many people don't know about, but I highly recommend to anybody at any age.

I don't think there's any reason on Earth why people should have access to automatic and semiautomatic weapons unless they're in the military or in the police.

When I'm working, I always listen to music to zone everyone else out.

Skills are common. Talent is rare.

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.

Childlike surrender and trust, I believe, is the defining spirit of authentic discipleship.

I'm reasonably good at talking onstage, but actually holding court in a pub is all to do with power dynamics which I don't think has anything to do with fiction.

I love Niecy Nash. I would take a vacation with the lady. She is just delightful.

The anger that appears to be building up between the sexes becomes more virulent with every day that passes. And far from women taking the blame... the fact is that men are invariably portrayed as the bad guys. Being a good man is like being a good Nazi.

It's so great in the theater when everyone catches up on the truth.

Recovery is something that you have to work on every single day and it's something that it doesn't get a day off.

The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it.

It's a shame about California, and particularly about L.A., where they've demolished so many landmarks. It's a bit of a disease there, where if anything is over 30 years old, they sort of knock it down and replace it. It's a strange town, it's this sprawling suburb, and then there's a city, the old town.

People are trying to decide whether the man made disaster is worse than Mother Natures disaster.

When entertainment works the best youre creating an apparatus to convey emotions.