How a mother comes to love her child, her caring at all for this thing that's made her heavy, lopsided and slow, this thing that made her wish she were dead ... that's the miracle.

If women lose the right to say where and how they birth their children, then they will have lost something that's as dear to life as breathing.

No matter what you do, someone always knew you would.

A girl should command attention, not suffer it.

American girls never whimper.

The thread connecting one person, one event, to another exists only in the imagination.

For a peaceful life, always think of peace and forget to judge others.

And the best sort of villain is smart and subtle and so very tricky that you don't even know he's the villain, because he thinks himself the hero in his own story.

Courage is being scared to death ... and saddling up anyway.

A woman's life is not perfect or whole till she has added herself to a husband. Nor is a man's life perfect or whole till he has added to himself a wife.

Where sin had brought men, love brought the Saviour.

You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.

If you meditate on your ideal, you will acquire its nature. If you think of God day and night, you will acquire the nature of God.

You do it to yourself, you do, And that's what really hurts, Is that you do it to yourself, Just you and no one else, You do it to yourself...

You really have to have a goal.