Joy explodes throughout the book of Psalms like fireworks, and is the most potent anti-missile defense system there is.

Depression, I've learned, is sometimes caused by anger that we keep locked up inside.

If He strips us of all our own resources, we just might learn to lean on Him. And to start praying again.

I listened to God and to my husband, not the the enemy's whispers, not to other people's opinions.

I love you for who you are, not who the world thinks you should be.

Capture the moment. It is your only sacred-memory.

Whatever free time I get, I love to catch news and sports shows.

It's never the right time to take a particular stand.

I try not to say exactly what songs are about sometimes, because I feel like it ruins it for people.

The truth isn't going to bend itself to suit you.

The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.

The best material model of a cat is another, or preferably the same, cat.

I am the only candidate for mayor of London with the experience of being a transport minister.

I believe the personal is the collective. One of the ironies of writing memoir is in using the "I" it becomes an alchemical "we." This is the sorcery of literature.