Mother was a great force in her area of evangelism.

It's part of what I do at my piano - the hymns. And then I write.

In our depths, I think we all feel very small in relation to the greater universe and God.

I see some some of these other guys, and they're wearing the hats and the jackets and saying the words and they're relating and they're picking. But there's something missing.

If I stopped writing and being at my piano, I wouldn't know how to live. It's your best friend.

I'd always been on the giving end of music and creating.

I'm not Lisa, my name is Julie.

Wait. Why am I thinking about Krispy Kremes? We’re supposed to be exercising.

They just want to be part of the moment. A moment that's much larger than them, and even larger than us.

I resolved to take Fate by the throat and shake the living out of her.

There is nothing to save, now all is lost, but a tiny core of stillness in the heart like the eye of a violet.

Ever since boyhood I've made a religion of keeping in shape by regular, conscientious exercise.

Often does good come out of evil. But that is God's, not man's plan.

We cannot get happiness by striving after it, and yet with an effort we can impart it.

Jeez Louise. I know why rich people are so thin: it's from trekking around their humongous houses the whole time.

The White House is a bully pulpit.

The Republican Party of 2005 bears no resemblance to the Republican Party of 1994.