The five stages of bureaucratic grieving are: denial, anger, committee meetings, scapegoating, and cover-up.

You don't have to get it perfect, you just have to get it going. Babies don't walk the first time they try, but eventually they get it right

With a metal heartI came to this life, My head was a crucible, full of elixir.Pearl by pearlMy heart was poured, Drop by dropMy head was splashed.The world was entirely a magnet.

I didn't want to be perceived as a girly girl on stage.

Ability to think, like the violin or piano, requires daily practice

I'm living with two guys. I'm living with a slob and a guy who sleeps all day.

The best things in life are gifts from the One who steadfastly loves us. But an important question to ask ourselves is this: are we in love with God or just His stuff?

No one thinks fortune so blind as those she has been least kind to.

Once [China] had a destiny. Once she was a conqueror. Now her greatest destiny seems to be merely to exist, to survive.

If we learn to understand each other, we will have a better understanding of ourselves.

It was a kiss made in lonely dreams. A kiss that took its time. A kiss that felt so right she couldn't remember all the reasons it was wrong.