Closure is just as delusive-it is the false hope that we can deaden our living grief.

A lot of people, especially psychoanalysts, assume that happiness can only be found in a couple - but not all of us are made for a relationship.

we all try to silence painful emotions. but when we succeed in feeling nothing we lose the only means we have of knowing what hurts us and why.

For a minute, the fantasy frightened her, but ultimately, this fear saved her from feeling alone.

Being loved is the problem, because love is a demand - when you're loved, someone wants more of you.

A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren't quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate them.

Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.

You can be someone running...who is just a soaring leader of people. But if you don't have the finances down, you're going to have a problem.

Always when you go to a new country and they teach you bad words, you just say them without knowing the value and people look at you because you didn't know that value of them.

But I don't think I was ever destined to be a big star.

I don't know how to get anything done except getting on my knees and pleading for help and then getting on my feet and going to work.

I suppose that the great questions of "Fate, Freewill, Foreknowledge Absolute," which used to be discussed at Concord, are still unsettled.

We give our intent to love and meekness, by the working of mercy and grace we are made all fair and clean.

I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well.

I have a huge amount of stress, but I believe stress can be a positive thing too.