Don’t forget to collect the memories on your journey. Remember, if you only focus on your destination, you will miss out on the benefits of the journey.

It's not what you go through that makes you strong: it is how you handle the situation that gives you strength.

My best testimonies are from the times I thought I couldn't survive.

We must experience certain things in life, even in our childhood, so we can later look back and value the journey.

Then Thalia Grace became their leader and started recruiting even more young women to their cause, which grated on Nico – as if Bianca’s death could be forgotten. As if she could be replaced.

When you're playing upside down, it takes twice the strength.

What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.

I do not have deep theological understanding or opinion, but I do not read the Bible as the literal word of God.

The United States Congress, acting with large bipartisan majorities, at the urging of the President, enacted as the law of the land that all children are to be above average.

We live in God's amusement park.

I think, irrespective of your race, everybody has moments in life where they don't fit in, or where they try to puzzle through who they really are or to find the courage of their convictions.

A lecture is an occasion when you numb one end to benefit the other.

I was fortunate enough to have an upbringing that made me more accepting of who I am.

Grief is illness. You cannot breathe; you cannot walk or eat or sleep. The sickness is entire, the body and the spirit.