It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.

The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you could be and fears it.

A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.

Deep in his heart, every man longs for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue.

The true story of every person in this world is not the story you see, the external story. The true story of each person is the journey of his or her heart.

Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.

Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.

She is the crescendo, the final, astonishing work of God. Woman. In one last flourish creation comes to a finish with Eve. She is the Master's finishing touch.

In the end, it doesn’t matter how well we have performed or what we have accomplished—a life without heart is not worth living.

Caring for our own hearts isn't selfishness; it's how we begin to love.

A man's calling is written on his true heart, and he discovers it when he enters the frontier of his deep desires.

Only the spirit nourishes the soul.

If you have never found yourself, the best place to look is in your loneliness, and rock-bottom is even better.

Choose to live life.Choose your own career paths.Choose your own destiny.

You see how I try To reach with words What matters most And how I fail.

I have to give the SNL crew props - it cannot have been easy to work with me.

I actually lost 90 pounds over the course of 15 months in order to save money on life insurance.

Every true friend is a glimpse of God.

A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but a woman called by a devaluing name will only be weakened by the misnomer.

Religious bigotry is a dull fire - hot enough to roast an ox, but with no lambent, luminous flame shooting up from it.

Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor.