How fragile our lives are anyway. How quickly things can change forever.

The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I am ready.

A clock only turns one direction

I dream of land, cut only where streams glistened with birdsong wander through quiet hills burnt hard by the scrape of wind, and of a porch from which a single road leads only homeward.

How is it possible for me to feel so young and so old at the same time?

Getting out of bed is a good way to leave your troubles behind.

The best cure for sadness is doing something.

Taking up marriage is a good excuse for taking up cursing, I think.

We are a noisy and blessed little family

[Children] just cannot be sad too long, it is not in them, as children mourn in little bits here and there like patchwork in their lives.

At times, it's better to think of exactly what is happening right in front of you every second, rather than going through things from the past in your mind.

We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.

His problems are so huge that your problems can just hide behind them.

Let your prayer for temporal blessings be strictly limited to things absolutely necessary.

All great achievements are the result of sustained focus over time-all of them.

I had an opportunity to play baseball in college, but I just didn't want to go to school. I started focusing on my music and it was game over!

Experience is a valuable thing. It enables us to recognize mistakes when we repeat them.

The scriptures are one of our greatest treasures. They contain God’s instructions to His people from the beginning of time.

Especially for my father it was a great change. He used to be a socialist and even a member of the socialist party. But then he became an orthodox Jew.

A Hospital isn't any place to end up being sick.

I don't want someone to squeeze me, that might take away my life. Just want someone to hold me, and we'll rock through the night.