I am not going to condemn anybody. That's where religion gets a bad name when people get holier than thou. We are all human. If my children make a mistake I want them to know it is all right and they should try harder next time.

I'm interested in the kind of religion that makes life harder. I'm not so interested in the comforting kind of religion.

I can sort of do what I want. Maybe I have to work harder to prove myself in some new relationship because they've heard some wacky stories about me. But at least I can get the meeting.

I think every relationship has a point where you stop and reevaluate. Are you happy? Have you grown together or apart? What do you share interests in? I think that's a normal thing to do but it's so much harder when it's done publicly.

It's easy to dislike the few senior women out there. What if women were half the positions in power? It would be harder to dislike all of them.

Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to keep the respect of the reader too.

Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

Making peace I have found is much harder than making war.

Making peace is harder than making war.

Teach us O Lord the disciplines of patience for to wait is often harder than to work.