I miss the comfort in being sad.

There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream.

If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.

I minded my own business, and, unfortunately, so did everyone else.

The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.

I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didn't believe them.

I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.

Have you ever had a broken heart?

If you get old fashioned enough, you'll always be in style.

I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness.

But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God.

I grew up on the East Coast, and we always used to say, 'Go get your hustle on, ' whether it was playing sports or making money. You do what you have to do to do what you want to do.

The Christian idea of a perfect heaven that is something other than a non-existence is a contradiction in terms.

The road to the promised land runs past Sinai.

Not everyone is meant to stay forever.

New Year's Day is a good time to fix one's eyes on the only One who knows what the year is to hold.

The silly when deceived exclaim loudly; the fool complains; the honest man walks away and is silent.

I bought my first house when I was 24 for £19,500 and it was sold two years ago for £256,000. I've always made profit on my houses.

I read some, and then visited with people involved in this curious, exciting and somewhat misunderstood sub-culture. I met with a fang maker, who offered to fit me for an exquisite pair.

Present suffering is not enjoyable, but life would be worth little without it. The difference between iron and steel is fire, but steel is worth all it costs.

I'm falling back on what some of the standard protocols for politics are after victory. We in America do not prosecute defeated political enemies.