When you know who matters most to you, giving things up, even yourself, doesn’t really feel like a sacrifice.

I'm happy, Ahren. I'm a princess. I have everything.""I think you're mistaking comfort for joy.

When my father is stern, no one chastises him. I don’t think it’s fair that when I act similarly, I’m seen as cruel. I’m making a huge decision, and I’m trying to be wise about it.

You can be brave and still be feminine. You can lead and still love flowers.

How can the truth make anything worse?

I'm not sure anyone knows what they're looking for until they find it

Crows pooping in your neighbor's roof is not good news

In the early days, it was nearly omnipresent, a constant background noise, like the hum of traffic on a busy highway: the sound of a human being in pain.

I have to admit that I only read 'War and Peace' when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then.

When there is more gratitude, there is less distrust.

Carlyle said that how to observe was to look, but I say that it is rather to see, and the more you look the less you will observe.

It's amazing how email has changed our lives. You ever get a handwritten letter in the mail today? 'What the? Has someone been kidnapped?'

To the wind with what the world thinks about us. We are not to seek the approval of earth, but the honor of heaven.

The only life many of the leaders of the anti-family planning movement seem to care about -- indeed obsess about -- is life before birth and after death.

Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.