The [Wal-Mart] corporate culture lagged way behind many other American corporations in terms of making progress on women's issues, and that had a lot to do with being based in northwest Arkansas.

Still, the seeds of change have been sown in my mind, and they will not be easily forgotten.

This heart is a hurricane, turbulent with ache screaming winds of grief waiting to make the skyfall, to pluck the cloudsfrom their beds with itswhipping winds

Writers are like actors too. For every story we create, we must get under the skin of the characters and role play with our writing.

To have God speak to the heart is a majestic experience, an experience that people may miss if they monopolize the conversation and never pause to hear God's responses.

Just shred baby, shred.

I am not ashamed to reply to you in my mother tongue, however imperfectly, and am glad to be able to show that my fatherland means more to me than anything else

I believe citizens are beginning to realize that their birthright, a healthy ecosystem, has been stolen, and they want it back.

I'm just a human being that is in touch with myself. And I'm honest with myself. And I really, at the end of the day, don't care what people say. I never cared about what people say.

A pipe is greater than a bong. Because when you're smoking a pipe at least it makes you look like you're thinking about something.

Praying privately in churches, I began to discover that heaven was my true home and also that it was here and now, woven into this life.