I wish I would have kept the big picture in my mind at all times - what it most important? That my kids seek to please God and learn about their Creator.

If you can't change it.. change the way you think about it

Life is too short to leave your walls bare or colorless. Unless you like bare and colorless then it is fine.

Open your heart - open it wide; someone is standing outside.

There's no better friend than a sister.

The golden opportunity you are seeking is within yourself.

So many people com einto our lives and then leave the way they came. But there are those precious few who touch our hearts so deeply we will never be the same.

Look to the beauty of this day, miracles are all around you.

If you pray for rain, be prepared to deal with some mud.

Heal the past, live the present, dream the future.

Bloom where you are planted!

Writers do not find subjects

Youth is a terrible thing: it is a stage trod by children in buskins and fancy costumes mouthing speeches they've memorized and fanatically believe but only half understand

If women’s role in life is limited solely to housewife/mother, it clearly ends when she can no longer bear more children and the children she has borne leave home.

I think my favorite place to eat dinner is the movie theater. Dirty dogs, a big thing of nachos and a Cherry Coke - and I'm good.

We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.

When I was in elementary school, the coach of our school (soccer) team personally unearthed my talents.

Music touching my soul, the spirit dance was unfolding.

The world is your oyster... ...too bad you're allergic to shellfish.

The cross of Christ, embraced with love, never brings sadness with it, but joy, the joy of being saved and of doing a little of what he did on the day of his death.

I should have thought of this years ago. But that was the problem with being sane. Sane people played by the rules. They looked for rational explanations and solutions in an insane universe.