...An honest conversation with anyone is a form of praying.

There's money, and then there's class. The two are often separated.

Better to live your life open rather than exist on borrowed time, waiting for the great unmasking.

A great measure of a man is how he reacts to a midnight awakening when there's no fire or burglar in sight.

Life isn't a straightforward climb up the ladder. It can take a few slips to really gain perspective.

Especially in a world that doesn't need homemade anything.That's when we need homemade everything.

Sometimes suffering is just suffering,” she told Gus. “It doesn't make you stronger. It doesn't build character. It only hurts.

The Friday Night Knitting Club

Women do amazing, creative, wonderful things.

Things work out better when you're straight up.

Whether a person is physically in front of you or not, the love remains.

Every relationship will suffer to some degree without finding self-acceptance and treating yourself like your own best friend.

We are all different. God made us that way. Drawing a line in the sand due to that is indeed unfortunate.

If you build a career on being a beautiful young woman, that's going to be a short career. I have to establish I can act. I don't want to have to visit the plastic surgeon every two years.

The voice of the Almighty speaks most profoundly in such things as lives in silence themselves.

When people think of angels, they think flowing robes and halos. But in the Bible, they also look like ordinary people. Why not today?

My heart is like an open highway...people come and go and sometimes they are just beside you and you dont know

I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' that's obvious.

Take away, O Lord, the veil of my heart while I read the Scriptures.

Apparently, as a kid, I used to eat spiders. Maybe there's some Freudian significance behind that.

The Kingdom of God is not a matter of getting individuals to heaven, but of transforming the life on earth into the harmony of heaven.