The most important thing as a leader is your relationship with God.

Look you've got a generation of people coming along who are going to form their own new relationship with the idea of supporting the causes that they care about or changing the world. And these people are not going to do it the way our parents do it.

Mine is just a simple old human story - of one person trying with great rigor and discipline to comprehend her personal relationship with divinity.

There was no relationship between a wedding dress and fashion. There was no good taste either. I realized that I could make an impression in terms of changing and readdressing the whole industry of bridal.

I like to write with people I have a relationship with otherwise it's kind of scary and you hold back because you don't want to pour your guts out to someone you never met.

I've always been the long-term relationship go-home-and-meet-mom girl.

Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship - and not as ends in themselves.

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.

When a person goes into a relationship emotionally needy they are not going to have discernment in choosing people.

Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then only a few feet away in the cookbook section just about every cookbook includes recipes for cooking animals. Is there a more illuminating illustration of our paradoxical relationship with the nonhuman world?

I've only recently realized that I have a radically different relationship with my parents than a lot of people.

What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.

I can't cultivate a relationship with my child if it's between takes. I tried that on a movie and realized 'This is not going to work.' It will work some of the year but not 12 months a year.

When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did I did. But we are not taught how to make it work.

The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender because this kiss already has within it that surrender.

My relationship with everyone in Jamaica is good.

What works in a relationship of very public people is not making the relationship public - keeping it as personal as it can be. It's the only way it is real.