Don't let's ask for the moon! We have the stars!

Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.

There were so many outstanding women in scripture that were leaders. And, you know, the organized church sometimes puts boundaries on us that the Bible doesn't.

Uninformed people can be easily manipulated.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and therefore the state in which one is most likely to find solid happiness.

The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment.

My kids have never seen me scream at anybody. They've never seen an argument. There's never been even a cold silence. And those are things that I grew up with because my parents did end up divorcing.

I have all this time between projects, and I'm not so sure that's a healthy thing. It's scary, because at 36 I'm woefully unqualified for anything else.

A true university can never rest upon the will of one man. A true university always rests upon the wills of many divergent-minded old men, who refuse to be disturbed, but who growl in their kennels.

Her courage was a guise. She wondered if courage always was, or if there were those who truly felt no fear.

It is the empiric who never fails.