Long before we discovered mirrors and photographs, our mothers' reflections provided us with the earliest glimpses of our female identity.

Life is like an EKG. Without the ups and downs, you're not living.

Birth is a bittersweet event ... a place where heaven and earth collide in a perplexing clash of hopes, dreams, facts, fears, questions, and expectations.

Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes

We believe in the unseen God. So we dare the impossible, which is possible by God’s grace.

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us in joy we face the storm and defy it.

We fear extremes and shy away from too much ardor in religion as if it were possible to have too much love or too much faith or too much holiness.

Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves.

Pumpkin pie is a living symbol of mediocrity. The best pumpkin pie you ever ate wasn't all that much different from the worst pumpkin pie you ever ate.

You're saying the gods don't have free will." "The power to make mistakes," Penny said. "Only we have that. Mortals

So long as God reveals Himself, or doesn't, He is behaving like God.

Only through struggle, have I found rest.

It's because I like you, I don't want to be with you. It's a complicated emotion.