I forgot my purse of laughter when I dressed this mornin', " she told me. "Have you not bought anythin' the last few days? Prices have gone up. Pay or starve, it's all one to me.

Money talks and walks, but it does not bark.

She's all over us like maggots on garbage, just because I interfered with one pickpocket yesterday.

What trouble have you brought to my doorstep, Beka?" she asked."I don't see where blaming me for things that began months ago will be useful, " I replied.

Only the favor of God can help us find fulfillment as we reveal Jesus Christ to this world.

A few years after working on Mauna Kea, I discovered that I had radiation sickness

That's what's so amazing about climbing - it's not just a sport. It's a lifestyle, it's a way of being creative, of connecting with yourself and with nature.

I just think it's great to show a gown that's $8,000 and a shoe that's, like, $25-but still look fabulous together.

Paradise is not the place you go when you die. Paradise is when your mind is in a perfect state.

I look upon the judgment of right and wrong as the serpentine dance of a dragon, and the rise and fall of beliefs as but traces left by the four seasons.

Music is decisions, and I decide for me what are brilliant decisions.

And when the echoes had ceased, like a sense of pain was the silence.

Let's put it this way: One can be happy or unhappy in a building. But some buildings make us more depressed than others.

They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.