Because we don't really sparkle.

He still wasn't looking at me, which meant I was still in trouble. I swear, sometimes this partnership is like being married. We fight all the time and neither one of us is getting married.

Things had improved after he was born. We both loved him with such fervor that it was impossible that some wouldn’t splash back on us.

If your heart is not attuned to God, it will become a catch basin for every device of the devil. Yes, Satan is at work in our world. The Bible is my authority.

Hurry always empties a soul.

Make everyday decisions from a place of love.

I’d signed six things and my stack wasn’t getting any smaller. It was like the paperwork was breeding while I worked.

But most people don't come up to me and express a lot of emotion.

There is no moral equivalent between that butcher and thug and KGB colonel Vladimir Putin and the United States of America, the country that Ronald Reagan used to call a shining city on a hill.

Success is walking out of here with the title, and anything less is not good enough in my book.

I sit before flowers hoping they will train me in the art of opening up I stand on mountain tops believing that avalanches will teach me to let go I know nothing but I am here to learn.

Am I really gonna deny someone the opportunity of a lifetime just because they met me 5 easters early?