It took me a long time to realize this: We get to choose what defines us.

It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.

Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.

Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.

Every life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter it.

Don't let anyone see your vulnerable spots. Once they knew how to hurt you, they would do it again and again.

I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was.

The next morning dawned bright and sweet, like ribbon candy.

She looked like autumn, when leaves turned and fruit ripened.

You can't change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you make up a new one.

She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches.

Daily mediate on the Holy Scriptures.

To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.

When you're not a mom, you can get up in the middle of the night, paint, sleep all morning... you can't do that when you have two children!

"You're an old man who dresses like a Hooter's waitress."

Everybody has this idea: You have children, and your entire life is complete. That's how I imagine it. I imagine I'll have children and then my whole life will just seem complete.

We’re seeing that business models and philanthropic models are not mutually exclusive.

It's amazing what you can accomplish when you know you have to hit the ground running.

But she named the infant "Pearl," as being of great price-purchased with all she had-her mother's only treasure!

I believe the things that happened to me as a child scarred me terribly, and I wish somebody would have helped me with some of the things that happened.

Hunger, thirst, cold, fatigue, your own physical and mental limitations - you will feel all of these. This teaches you about nature, more than that, you come face to face with yourself