Precision about language can be really, really annoying. It can make you miss the point of what the other person is saying altogether.

There are days when I think I don't believe anymore. When I think I've grown too old for miracles. And that's right when another seems to happen.

Everyday is filled with opportunities to take a quiet moment

There's no going back from what happened. You can go back and understand the past, but you can't go back and change it.

They're just words. And words alone don't really mean anything. It's what you feel and what you believe when you say them that matter.

I have a theory that as long as you have one good friend, one real friend, you can get through anything.

Some things you can fix, and some things you can't. And I just think it is a shame to walk away from the things you can.

Guys don't go for me. Period. I don't distract them. They don't sneak glances in my direction. They don't think of me when I'm not standing right in front of them. I'm scenery. I'm background.

Friends, I was pretty sure, lift their friends up; they don't weigh them down like a sack full of stones

The Little Drummer Boy was playing in the background for what seemed like the third time in a row. I fought off an urge to beat that Little Drummer Boy senseless with his own drumsticks.

When there's something or someone, when there's anything that makes you happy, you don't let a continent or an ocean or an empty pocket keep you apart

You know your husband truly loves you when he calls you, "Money, I'm home!

When I understand that everything happening to me is to make me more Christlike, it resolves a great deal of anxiety.

Things in the margins, including humans who wander there, are often on the brink of becoming someone else, or something else, whose memory may not include the significance of old markers.

Marriage equality is the law of the land. Officials should be held to their duty to uphold the law - end of story.

If one person comes in and says, this is the way life should be, I think you're asking for chaos. I think you gotta let different people live different ways. It's a big world.

I am concerned, rather, that there should not be more things dreamt of in my philosophy than there are in heaven or earth.

God is the Great Engineer, creating circumstances to bring about moments in our lives of divine importance, leading us to divine appointments

What cannot be said will be wept.

Dictatorship is like a giant beech-tree - very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it.

Real Americans don't back down.