Pain and suffering are the dark strands through the tapestry of your life, providing the shadows that give depth and dimension to the masterpiece God is fashioning within you.

Joshua chose the simple life ... because it gave him the freedom to expand the breadth of his inner life.

God has no favorites.

The poor never have enough for themselves ... but always have enough to give away.

The houses people live in reflect their opinions of themselves.

But God is never cruel.

Only the individual knows to what God is calling him.

... but a dream is nothing more than reality shorn of cynicism.

He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please.

A lot of people have nothing very well organized, and a lot of people have nothing, very well organized.

For love to last, you had to have illusions or have no illusions at all. But you had to stick to one or the other. It was the switching back and forth that endangered things.

I'm an old bag - I like old things.

My mother was a wonderful, wonderful woman with a lovely voice who hated housework, hated cooking even more and loved her children. She was always arranging church activities such as a bazaar.

No matter where you're from - you can be Native American, Italian, Jewish, Latino, African-American - whatever you are, we're all distant relatives.

The world meets nobody halfway. When you want something, you gotta take it.

Have you ever noticed how transparent people are when you really look at them?

Get used to disappointment.