I firmly believe that if you pray long enough, if you wish hard enough, God will grant you at least one wish in your lifetime.

The best dreams are the dreams we made come true for the world.

To forgive, you must love the world and everything in it. Anything less is hypocrisy.

Today, you can pick your own news. At no time has the world been this compatible with apathy.

Reality is a construct. You are what you think you are.

I dream of a morning when Filipinos can wake up from the centuries-long sleep that took them from their past and denied them their destiny as a people.

In the end, class will out. So much talk about helping the poor. It's all words and class interest— in the end.

The battle for hearts and minds begins in the field of memory. And in that field, age has no limit.

Kindness is fate’s currency for good fortune. And like all currencies, it is without value when faked.

Only two things in man’s consciousness defy discussion: faith and one’s marriage.

Faith is one of only two things in mankind's consciousness that defies discussion. The other is one's marriage.

..."Dont marry an orange and expect him to turn into an apple." If you want an orange, great. If not, put him back in the proverbial fruit bowl for someone else to enjoy and move on.

Freedom rings bells to wake us from the comfort of beautiful dreams and empower the efforts that turn them into reality.

Every marriage is a mystery to me, even the one I'm in. So I'm no expert on it.

I'm as highly insecure as a human can be.

I'm a country girl. I like country music. I'm not going to lie. I'm from the South, and I grew up on it. My dad was a country singer-songwriter, so it's in my blood and I love it.

What a shame that allowances have to stop with the teens: both those that are paid to us and those that are made for us.

I think [H. P. Lovecraft] knew the whole gamut. He just didn't believe any of it! He probably liked to use the esoteric stuff because he knew it would tick people off and freak them out.

We do not sit in authority over the Scripture, the Scripture sits in authority over us.

I'm a well-intentioned plotter who ends up with wondrous pantsing revelations and (at times) ginormous rewrites that look almost nothing like my carefully plotted plans.

Learners are doers, not recipients.