"Football is not played on paper, it is played on a pitch. This game is not mathematics and in football, two plus two very rarely equals four - it's usually three or five."

“The Puritans removed organs and paintings from churches, but bought them for private use in their homes.”

Source : Leland Ryken (2010). “Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were”, p.22, Harper Collins

“Writers, at least writers of fiction, are always full of anxiety and worry.”

“The vast majority of golfers don't go on to play golf as a profession, but they do go onto other professions where there will heat on them from time to time. Some people choke under pressure. If you have that as part of your character - that you don't perform well under pressure - it's really important for you to know that. The game teaches you about that.”

Source : "A conversation with PGA golfer Stewart Cink". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. January, 2012.

“Loving ourselves is a revolutionary act!”

“I was about 20 when my mom got sick with cancer and it was bad. It was very scary and at the time I was doing my first screenplay and I was on deadline and was alone with my father in Massachusetts. I said, "Pop, you know, I don't how I'm going to work. I don't know how I can get this done. You know, I got to hand this script in and I can't think about anything but Mom." He said, "Well, you know, now is the time when you're going to learn what it means to compartmentalize." And those words really had an impact on me.”

“I believe in the unlimited power of women in the context of science and engineering.”

“The Soul is repository of information that we gather during a lifetime.”

“Fundamentally I think we all write the kinds of work we'd most like to read. Or we try to.”