Not everything in my life has been pretty.

Immerse yourself in the Word of God and what He has to say and get your eyes and your emotions, as hard as that might be, get them off the situation and turn to Him.

If you allow yourself to get bothered by the change, then you're not stable. But God is so stable, and if you keep yourself in Him, that stability is going to come off on you, too.

You need a relationship with Jesus, and I had never heard that before. So when my mom told me about that, I said, "Okay, let me try this." And so I did.

I came into an environment that was already grounded spiritually, so that helped me a lot.

I come from a huge family. I am used to taking orders and being told what to do and not having an opinion, but I think that what I've gone through made me really sensitive to other people.

I hope that I'm able to help people when they're going through things, even if it's just to listen.

Pray that I would keep my focus on the Lord, no matter what.

I can stand what I know. It's what I don't know that frightens me.

Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.

As the husband is the wife is.

Peace signifies more than the stilling of guns, easing the sorrow of war. More than escape from death, it is a way of life. More than a haven for the weary, it is a hope for the brave.

To write brashly about some things, it is almost necessary not to know much about them.

Well," he sighed to no one in particular, and looked up into yet another alien sky. "Here we are again.

You are all a lost generation," Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go home. Ours was the generation that stayed up all night.

The House GOP continues to fail to address the real & serious issues thatthousands of families face each day.

There was reason to fear that the Revolution, like Saturn, might devour in turn each one of her children.

My dreams are worthless, my plans are dust, my goals are impossible. All are of no value unless they are followed by action.

The actual act of writing brings me such pleasure - to tell stories, to engage in cultural criticism, to reflect, to question, all of it is invigorating.