Surround yourself with people who will believe in you, challenge you and encourage you.

Learning how to forgive helps us grow spiritually because it acknowledges only God truly controls our destiny.

Weak people pretend they're perfect. Courageous people acknowledge and confront their weaknesses.

Only because of darkness are we able to clearly see the stars.

When I do get time, I like to hike and I take lots of vitamins and powders to keep healthy.

Do I really need to prove anything to anybody? I don't feel that I have to prove anything. The only thing that I have to prove is to myself, that I have value.

An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment...

My father's religious life was not Biblically centered. He was a saintly man, whom I could never emulate, so I went into scholarship rather than into the kind of pastoral activity that he pursued.

There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing.

O flower-de-luce, bloom on, and let the river Linger to kiss thy feet! O flower of song, bloom on, and make forever The world more fair and sweet.

[On the ERA Equality March:] It's the funniest thing. I don't feel there's any discrimination. I know my husband feels that way.

I had it all wrong," he says. "Before I found you, I thought the only way to hold on was to find something to live for. It isn't. To hold on, you have to find something you're willing to die for.