If we spent as much time lifting our children as we do criticizing them, how effectively we could help them to see themselves in a more positive light!

God does not begin by asking us about our ability, but only about our availability, and if we then prove our dependability, he will increase our capability.

The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched.

If, in the end, you have not chosen Jesus Christ it will not matter what you have chosen.

The more seriously we work on our own imperfections, the less we are judgemental of the imperfections of others.

We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.

No love is ever wasted. Its worth does not lie in reciprocity.

The submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's altar. The many other things we 'give' are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us.

We should not assume; however, that just because something is unexplainable by us, it is unexplainable.

Trials and tribulations tend to squeeze the artificiality out of us, leaving the essence of what we really are and clarifying what we really yearn for.

You rock a sobbing child without wondering if today's world is passing you by, because you know you hold tomorrow tightly in your arms.

I can sacrifice everything for my dreams and goals encourage me or simply leave me.

I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos.

This is a wonderful way to celebrate an 80th birthday... I wanted to be 65 again, but they wouldn't let me - Homeland Security.

The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.

I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.

[On her writing agenda:] Make the familiar exotic; the exotic familiar.

The Church limits her sacramental services to the faithful. Christ gave Himself upon the cross a ransom for all.

Someone should make a Kickstarter to get Taylor Swift a booty.

Maybe in adopting an adolescent attitude you then take on the look of a young person.

Music is catharsis for me.