God calls me to write the truth of my life transparently so that others can learn from my hurt and heartache without taking the field trip themselves.

You were created as a masterpiece and you are one of God's expressions of beauty. Short, tall, thin, thick, freckles, big eyes, small ones . . . it doesn't matter.

When you truly love God, you obey Him.

A girl should get so lost in God, that a guy has to seek God to find her!

A girl's modesty is first noted by her external presentation, but if it's not followed by the confidence of internal modesty, she still forfeits the power of her virtue.

The allure of immodesty is not in what is seen but what is not seen. Modesty issues a challenge for one man to romantically earn your virtue.

Through all this other stuff I was doing, I always went back to the writing, and it was writing that made me feel whole, complete.

You cannot limit the power of your modesty to just what you wear. It is also controlled or forfeited by where you are willing to go with guys, why you go there, and how you act.

Be the ocean let the river come to you.

In the horrors of war, please bring me peace.

One cannot build life from refrigerators, politics, credit statements and crossword puzzles. That is impossible. Nor can one exist for any length of time without poetry, without color, without love.

Climate change is the single biggest thing that humans have ever done on this planet. The one thing that needs to be bigger is our movement to stop it.

Madonna's great instinctive intelligence was evident to me from her earliest videos.

Needle and thread flesh and bone Spit and sinew, heartbreak is home. Your suture lines, they sparkle like diamonds Bright stars to light my confinement "Stitch.

Let soldiers on manoeuvres plant trees. Give police and criminals a shovel and a thousand seedlings.

[Preparing for award shows] gets insane. The dress, the hair, the makeup...I end up always picking the dress at the last second.

For our white members, voting is something they have done for hundreds of years. But for us, it is not such a traumatic thing, because we have never participated in an election.

The worst thing for worker's is their bosses business going out of business.