A good home must be made, not bought.

She felt everything too deeply, it was like the world was too much for her.

It's not only children who grow. Parents do too.

A person who deserves my loyalty receives it.

The big dramas that fascinate me are the quiet ones that happen behind closed doors in so-called ordinary families.

The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art.

At Home in the World is the story of a young woman, raised in some difficult circumstances, and how she survives. It tells a story of redemption, not victimhood.

To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the storyteller, but for those who hear our stories and feel less alone because of it.

My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor for making money off of cancer?

The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn.

Those who rhapsodize about the ease and joy of childhood have perhaps forgotten what it's like to be 12 years old.

As with most dreams of men, the ideal becomes just that––an ideal––and the pure rationale of existence is thrust upon the best of the dreamers.

Rejecting Jesus Christ is like a fugitive who spends all day running but has nowhere to hide

Sit there and look pretty.

The duty of the individual farmer, at this time, is to increase his production, particularly of food crops.

I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and a copy of the Domesday Book.

Three things faith does: it reckons on God; it risks with God (and) it rests in God.

I would think it a greater happiness to gain one soul to Christ than mountains of silver and gold to myself.

A man who is stingy with saffron is capable of seducing his own grandmother.

To recognize negativism as a force of creation is to give up the creative standpoint altogether.

Joy is the sheer evidence of God.