The prayers we weave into the matching of socks, the stirring of oatmeal, the reading of stories, they survive fire.

In a world addicted to speed, I blur the moments into one unholy smear.

Busy is a choice. Stress is a choice. Joy is a choice. Choose well.

Like the wind, Grace finds us wherever we are and won't leave us however we were found.

Being joyful isn't what makes you grateful. Being grateful is what makes you joyful.

It's habits that can imprison you and it's habits that can free you. But when thanks to God becomes a habit - so joy in God becomes your life.

The moment when you are most repelled by a child's behavior, that is your warning light to draw the very closest to that child.

There is unwavering peace today when an uncertain tomorrow is trusted to an unchanging God.

We give thanks to God not because of how we feel, but because of Who He is.

...the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.

Joy and pain, they are but two arteries of the one heart that pumps through all those who don't numb themselves to really living.

Any problems that may occur have ultimately been caused by you, because you are responsible for where you are and what you are doing there.

The historic lesson is that it was a strategic failure to go into Iraq. History will not be and should not be kind with that decision.

My belief is you have one chance to make a first impression.

I think it's fair to say more adultery goes on in hotels than any other place in the world.

A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence.

I'm not paid to be a role model. I'm paid to wreak havoc on the basketball court.

The ability to suffer is a small matter - weak women and even slaves can acheive virtuosity in that.

When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what they had seen or found or what had been told to them.

The Beatles did their best cover work on Little Richard's 'Long Tall Sally' and music influenced by Richard, such as Larry Williams's 'Dizzy Miss Lizzie.

Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten, when their noblest and most enduring works decay? Death comes even to monumental structures, and oblivion rests on the most illustrious names.