Premature burial works just fine as a cure for adolescence.

I looked at myself in the mirror. I looked awful, but I always look awful in the mirror. I keep myself going with the firm belief that my real face is much better looking.

Various Horsemen are abroad, doing their various Apocalyptic things.

I figured if Allah had wanted us up that early, He wouldn't have invented noon.

Jesus, what a nuisance it was, being desperate to stay alive.

The two women looked at me as if I were the Messiah returning with their personal salvations sealed in separate envelopes.

The longer I observe the way people really act, the happier I am that I never pay attention to them.

Miracles await you when you begin to serve people

Eternal life truly begins the moment you’re born again. It’s a present tense—not future tense—reality. If you’re a believer, eternal life is now!

Excerpt from "The Strength in Knowing"Doubt is the archenemy of the purity of thought and it inhibits theessence of all that is

Embrace those parts of yourself that you've skillfully avoided until now. That's your true adventure.

Positive characterizations are complex characterizations. That's all we need to know. They shouldn't be saccharine. They shouldn't feel like medicine.

Publication is not all that it is cracked up to be. But writing is.

I am the woman who glows in the dark, I'll stay awake forever if I have to.

The search for happiness is unlike any other search, for we search last in the likeliest places.

I had to overcome the name Rock. If I'd been as hip then as I am now, I would have never consented to be named Rock.

Everybody has their own story, everybody has their own journey.