I want kids to understand that strength doesn't come from what goes on around you. It comes from inside you, and that comes from Jesus Christ.
Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
I love writing, but I have that E. E. Cummings idea that as long as you stay inside the rules of your own world, it doesn't matter what it is.
I have an affinity for writing in the first person. I love the intimacy of being dropped inside the character.
What's the reality of being inside a zoo, for the animals and for the people who love and care for those animals? There's a lot of joy, and there's a lot of loss.
You see, every day, that the people who are seemingly so confident and seemingly so in love with themselves are the ones who are the most insecure and hurting the most inside.
I was looking for the people who were making the music inside the cabinet. I would look in there and see if I could find somebody who was making all this wonderful music.
Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words inside my thoughts.
Having children is my greatest achievement. It was my saviour. It switched my focus from the outside to the inside. My children are gifts, they remind me of what's important.
Being a writer brings out a sassy woman inside me, and I love her so.
A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.
...It was borne in upon her audience that the outside of Jane's charming head was distinctly superior to the inside.
I liked the idea of all of humanity fitting inside a sugar cube because more than 99.9% of matter is space.
I've often noticed that we are not able to look at what we have in front of us, unless it's inside a frame.
You see the names of places roundabout? They're mine now, and I've turned them inside out.
A true friend is like a good book, the inside is always better than the cover.
Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble.
A day is not always bright, and Nights are not always dark. All that matters is what's inside, because day and night are a reflection of you.
Actors who say they can dive inside a character are either schizophrenic or lying.
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender.
