Maybe, now and then, we have to give up a portion of our kingdoms--the things we hold dearest--to find what it is God wants for us.

I'm more interested in lookin' forward than back. The past is done and there's no changin' it.

I'll try to turn the other cheek....But I've only got two and they're both stinging.

Could he really want a relationship with a woman who was at the point in life of trading beauty for wisdom?

It's been much harder to forgive myself. My mistake was like a pebble dropped in a pond. The ripple effect has impacted everyone I love.

I am what I am... but for the first time in my life, I'm sorry for it.

We can best honor our dead by livin' well. Moving' forward dusna mean y love them any less. It just means ye're still alive.

Naomi knew she should pray... Instead, she put her face in her hands and wept with all the force of a bursting dam.

The truth be told, Lord, I don't like you very much right now.

Men fight like men. Women fight like unchained demons.

When I was looking for the key to open the deepest chamber of your heart, I found that secret key of pure love hidden in my heart.

How is it that time can be elastic? Sometimes years seem to go by while you're looking the other way, and sometimes-when you most long for it to pass-life-times can stretch from a few hours

I won't say ours was a tough school but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like "What I'm Going to Be if I Grow Up."

But if the longing for the achievement of the goal is powerfully alive within us, then shall we not lack the strength to find the means for reaching the goal and for translating it into deeds.

I then spoke to chancellor (Angela) Merkel of Germany and we agreed that the United States and our European allies will work closely together in the weeks and months ahead.

In Zen we classify ten thousand different states of mind, different ways of seeing life. There is something beyond the ten thousand states of mind that we call nirvana.

The line between faith and fanaticism is a constantly shifting one,” Dr. Poblocki said. “When does belief become justification? When does right become rationale and crusade become crime?

We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.

I think the important thing about my appointment is not that I will decide cases as a woman, but that I am a woman who will get to decide cases.

I definitely had an advantage growing up in New York. It's different playing on a New York playground.